Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Case Report and Current Treatment Dilemmas

Table 4

Influenza patients at greater risk of bacterial pneumonia [8].

---

(i) Adults > 65 years

(ii) Pregnant or postpartum (within 2 weeks after delivery) women

(iii) Persons ≤ 19 years receiving long-term aspirin therapy

(iv) American Indians and Alaska natives

(v) Morbidly obese (i.e., body mass index ≥ 40)

(vi) Residents of nursing homes and other chronic care facilities

(vii) Immunosuppressed persons

(viii) Chronic pulmonary (including asthma) disease

(ix) Renal, hepatic, and/or hematological (including sickle cell) disease

(x) Cardiovascular (except hypertension) disease

(xi) Metabolic disorders (including diabetes mellitus)

(xii) Neurologic and neurodevelopment conditions (including disorders for the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerve and muscle, epilepsy, stroke, and intellectual disability [e.g., mental retardation])

(xiii) Moderate to severe development delay, muscular dystrophy, or spinal cord injury

---