Community-acquired pneumonia in vulnerable populations across the Americas: ongoing barriers to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
• ² Acute Lung Injury and Infection Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
• ³ San Antonio Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), South Texas Veterans Health Care System Audie L. Murphy Division, San Antonio, TX, United States.
• ⁴ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States.
• ⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
• ⁸ Department of Medicine, Hospital Nacional de Niños, Asociación Latinoamericana de Tórax, San José, Costa Rica.
• ⁹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Instituto Nacional del Tórax, Asociación Latinoamericana de Tórax, Santiago, Chile.
• ¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Centro Universitário do Pará CESUPA, Belém, Brazil.
• ¹¹ Instituto da Criança e do Adolescente, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ¹² Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
• ¹³ Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.