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Update to the Latin American Thoracic Society (ALAT) Recommendations on Community-Acquired Pneumonia
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These recommendations were made possible by the unrestricted support of Bayer and Aventis

Members of the ALAT WorkGroup Coordinators: Carlos M. Luna (Argentina) and José Roberto Jardim (Brazil). Work Group Members: Horacio López, Juan Antonio Mazzei, and Daniel Stamboulian (Argentina); Julio César Abreu de Oliveira and Jorge Pereira (Brasil); Alejandro Díaz, Carmen Lisboa, and Fernando Saldías (Chile); Darío Maldonado and Carlos Torres (Colombia); Salvador Martínez Selmo (Dominican Republic); Marc Miravitlles*, Felipe Rodríguez de Castro, and Antoni Torres (Spain); Antonio Anzueto and Julio Ramírez (USA); Juan Manuel Luna (Guatemala); Manuel Díaz, Rogelio Pérez Padilla, Alejandra Ramírez, and Raúl Sansores (Mexico); Irving Carrasco (Panama); Alberto Matsuno (Peru).

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