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This book focuses on World clinics Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine: Pneumonia. Pneumonia has overwhelming importance in clinical medicine and affects all age groups from neonates to the elderly. It leads on to serious consequences such as sepsis, respiratory failure and death. This book consists of 14 chapters, which include epidemiology and risk factors of pneumonia, etiological diagnosis of pneumonia, role of imaging in respiratory infections, severity assessment of pneumonia, management of