|
Penicillin-resistant
and drug-resistant pneumococci |
| Age >65 yr |
![[Beta]](noicu_archivos/BETA.GIF) -lactam therapy
within the last 3 months |
| Alcoholism |
| Immune-suppressive illness (including
therapy with corticosteroids) |
| Multiple medical comorbidities |
| Exposure to a child in a day care
center |
|
Enteric
gram-negatives |
| Residence in a nursing home |
| Underlying cardiopulmonary disease |
| Multiple medcial comorbidities |
| Recent antibiotic therapy |
|
Pseudomonas
aeruginosa |
| Structural lung disease
(bronchiectasis) |
| Corticosteroid therapy (>10 mg
prednisone per day) |
| Broad-spectrum antiobiotic thearpy for
>7 days in the past month |
| Malnutrition |