Currently, in the practice of general practitioners a special urgency has community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), due to the high prevalence in the pediatric population. In practice, especially in the outpatient setting, serious problems are early diagnosis and rational therapy of pneumonia in children. According to the WHO, pneumonia is the leading cause of infant mortality worldwide. In particular, among the causes of mortality in children under 5 years, accounting for 17.5% annually in the world is about 1.1 million deaths
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