PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mark L. Everard
TI  - Paediatric respiratory infections
AID  - 10.1183/16000617.0084-2015
DP  - 2016 Mar 01
TA  - European Respiratory Review
PG  - 36--40
VI  - 25
IP  - 139
4099  - http://err.ersjournals.com/content/25/139/36.short
4100  - http://err.ersjournals.com/content/25/139/36.full
SO  - EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY REVIEW2016 Mar 01; 25
AB  - Pulmonary infections remain a major cause of infant and child mortality worldwide and are responsible for a substantial burden of morbidity. During the 2015 European Respiratory Society International Congress in Amsterdam, some of the main findings from peer-reviewed articles addressing this topic that were published in the preceding 12 months were reviewed in a Paediatric Clinical Year in Review session. The following article highlights some of the insights provided by these articles into the complex interactions of the human host with the extensive and dynamic populations of microorganisms that call an individual “home”.A review of publications from the past year addressing acute life-threatening and chronic respiratory infections http://ow.ly/W4ahI