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Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2020; 55: Suppl. 65, abstract number.

Community acquired pneumonia – new guidelines, major advances?

Symposium
Chairs: E. Polverino (Barcelona, Spain), G. Rohde (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Aims: To appraise the recommendations of the new CAP guidelines and revisit important advances and drawbacks of the new recommendations to clinical care; to evaluate established and emerging evidence on complementary diagnostic methods in patients with suspicion of CAP; to revise the management of immunocompromised patients with suspicion of CAP; to discuss alternative diagnosis and management in non-resolving CAP and associated pleural infection.

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CAP guidelines 2019 – new and better? S. Aliberti (Milano (MI), Italy)
Diagnosing CAP – any advances? C. Prat Aymerich (Badalona (Barcelona), Spain)
CAP in the immunocompromised – more common than you think J. Ramirez (Louisville, United States of America)
Non-resolving CAP – what to do when antibiotics do not help M. Tamm (Basel, Switzerland)