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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an infrequent pathogen causing community acquired pneumonia (CAP). Specific risk factors that include the presence or absence of prior infection/colonization due to P. aeruginosa and one of the three chronic lung conditions[i.e., tracheostomy, bronchiectasis and/or very severe COPD]) determine the different rates of P. aeruginosa CAP.

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This page is a summary of: Burden and risk factors forPseudomonas aeruginosacommunity-acquired pneumonia: a multinational point prevalence study of hospitalised patients, European Respiratory Journal, July 2018, European Respiratory Society (ERS),
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01190-2017.
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