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    Among children with community-associated pneumonia who have improved by day 5, study findings showed that additional days of antibiotic therapy did not confer additional benefits, researchers reported during IDWeek. “This study provides the data needed to shorten the course of antibiotics for many children with community-associated pneumonia,” Infectious Diseases in Children Editorial

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    In children discharged with a diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia, there was no difference in treatment failure or parent-reported quality-of-life measures between those who received antibiotics and those who did not.

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