Pneumonia is an inflammatory infection of the lungs, affecting the alveoli and surrounding tissue, that can be caused by viruses, bacteria, or fungi. It ranges from mild to life-threatening and tends to be more dangerous for young children, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems or underlying disease.…
Pneumonia is an inflammatory infection of the lungs, affecting the alveoli and surrounding tissue, that can be caused by viruses, bacteria, or fungi. It ranges from mild to life-threatening and tends to be more dangerous for young children, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems or underlying disease. Typical features include cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing, and severe cases can progress to respiratory failure. During the COVID-19 pandemic, viral pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 became a major focus of clinical attention and research. Articles in this journal examine pneumonia with particular emphasis on COVID-19 and acute lung infection. Studies include the use of prognostic tools such as the PIRO score and serum ferritin as markers of mortality risk in COVID-19 pneumonia, narrative reviews of the novel coronavirus, and discussions of new forms of acute pneumonia associated with the pandemic. Other contributions consider whether the alveolar-arterial oxygen pressure difference can help diagnose acute respiratory distress syndrome in pneumonia, and they revisit fundamental questions about whether acute pneumonia is best understood as infection or inflammation. Together these works situate pneumonia within respiratory medicine, infectious disease, and the broader study of coronaviruses and pandemic response.
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 12 articles above have been cited 19 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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