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cord-327264-j0efi5vc	Waterer, Grant	Respiratory infections in the Asia‐Pacific region	2017-05-24		.txt	text/plain	557	33	52	Lower respiratory tract infections remain the number one cause of death in the developing world. 1 In the developed world, lower respiratory tract infections are still the fifth leading cause of death. As well as host factors, it is the speed of adaptation of the pathogens that makes it most likely that we will not conquer death from respiratory infection any time soon. While some progress has been made in reducing pneumococcal disease with the newer conjugate vaccines, 2 there is evidence that the speed of adaptation (as measured by the proportion of strains not covered by the vaccines) is increasing. In this series on respiratory infections in Respirology, many of the above-mentioned challenges will be covered including the burden of disease due to respiratory pathogens (both acute and long-term), drug-resistant pathogens and newly emerging pathogens.	./cache/cord-327264-j0efi5vc.txt	./txt/cord-327264-j0efi5vc.txt