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Review
. 2017 Jun;9(6):1469-1502.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2017.05.31.

South African guideline for the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults

Tom H Boyles  1 , Adrian Brink  1   2 , Greg L Calligaro  3 , Cheryl Cohen  4   5 , Keertan Dheda  3 , Gary Maartens  6 , Guy A Richards  7 , Richard van Zyl Smit  3 , Clifford Smith  8 , Sean Wasserman  1 , Andrew C Whitelaw  9   10 , Charles Feldman  11 ; South African Thoracic Society; Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa
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South African guideline for the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults

Tom H Boyles et al. J Thorac Dis. 2017 Jun.

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Conflicts of Interest: AC Whitelaw has received honoraria to the Institute from MSD, Novartis, AstraZeneca, and Takeda. A Brink has received honoraria from MSD, Cipla and Pfizer. C Feldman has acted on the advisory board and/or speakers bureau of companies manufacturing and/or marketing macrolide antibiotics (Abbott, Aspen GSK, Pfizer, Sandoz) and ceftaroline (AstraZeneca/Pfizer) and companies manufacturing and/or marketing the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Pfizer). C Cohen has received received grant funds to the Institute from Sanofi and travel paid for by Sanofi and Parexel. GA Richards has received honoraria from Aspen, Cipla, MSD, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, BMS and Fresenius Kabi. K Dheda has received grants, free products/kits from Hain Life Sciences, Alere Diagnostics, FIND Diagnostics, Pfizer, Novartis, Cipla, GSK, AstraZeneca and Sanofi-Aventis. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Figure 1
Algorithm for the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults in South Africa. This figure should be read in conjunction with the text. Adapted with permission from the South African Medical Journal (S Afr Med J 2007;97:1295-306).
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