Abstract:Pneumonia is a lower respiratory tract infection that affected 489 million people worldwide in the year 2019 according to data from the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2019 study,1,2. The disease was still responsible for over 2.49 million deaths in the year of the survey, surpassing other diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV, making pneumonia the leading infectious cause of death worldwide
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