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cord-270298-zv0t3d0m	Bouch, Christopher	Recently published papers: pulmonary care, pandemics, and eugenics in surviving sepsis?	2006-02-01		.txt	text/plain	1665	100	48	Health-care-associated pneumonia (HCAP) refers to a pulmonary infection that develops in individuals recently hospitalised, or undergoing renal replacement therapy or other long-term out-patient care. However, no study had looked at the pathogens of both HCAP and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and compared them with those of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The study defined 4,543 positive pneumonias, of which 2,221 were CAP, 988 HCAP, 853 HAP and 499 VAP. The authors suggest that HCAP is a distinct entity from CAP and should be treated as a hospital-acquired type of infection from first presentation; the paper certainly supports the recently published guidelines from the American Thoracic Society [2] . The authors suggest that mitochondrial DNA haplotyping offers a new means of risk stratification in severe sepsis, although further work is clearly needed to identify possible therapeutic avenues.	./cache/cord-270298-zv0t3d0m.txt	./txt/cord-270298-zv0t3d0m.txt