Empiric antibiotics for moderate-severe community-Acquired Pneumonia: We ought to serve patients better!

Marc Bonten; Valentijn Schweitzer; Henri van Werkhoven

doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2025.08.029

Empiric antibiotics for moderate-severe community-Acquired Pneumonia: We ought to serve patients better!

Marc Bonten^*
, Valentijn Schweitzer
, Henri van Werkhoven

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Article number	doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2025.08.029
Pages (from-to)	1779-1781
Number of pages	3
Journal	Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Volume	31
Issue number	11
Early online date	3 Sept 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2025.08.029
Publication status	Published - Nov 2025

Keywords

Antibiotics
Epidemiology
Meta-analysis
Pneumonia

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Bonten, M., Schweitzer, V., & van Werkhoven, H. (2025). Empiric antibiotics for moderate-severe community-Acquired Pneumonia: We ought to serve patients better! Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 31(11), 1779-1781. Article doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2025.08.029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2025.08.029

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Bonten, M , Schweitzer, V & van Werkhoven, H 2025, 'Empiric antibiotics for moderate-severe community-Acquired Pneumonia: We ought to serve patients better!', Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, vol. 31, no. 11, doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2025.08.029, pp. 1779-1781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2025.08.029

Empiric antibiotics for moderate-severe community-Acquired Pneumonia: We ought to serve patients better! / Bonten, Marc ; Schweitzer, Valentijn ; van Werkhoven, Henri.
In: Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Vol. 31, No. 11, doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2025.08.029, 11.2025, p. 1779-1781.

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Bonten M , Schweitzer V , van Werkhoven H. Empiric antibiotics for moderate-severe community-Acquired Pneumonia: We ought to serve patients better! Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 2025 Nov;31(11):1779-1781. doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2025.08.029. Epub 2025 Sept 3. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2025.08.029

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