Rukovodstvo soderzhit samye sovremennye svedeniia ob etiologii i patogeneze, klassifikatciiakh, diagnostike i lechenii pnevmonii. Privedeno podrobnoe opisanie klinicheskikh variantov techeniia zabolevaniia v zavisimosti ot prevaliruiushchego etiologicheskogo agenta. V razdelakh, posviashchennykh lecheniiu bolnykh pnevmoniei, predstavleny razlichnye skhemy antibiotikoterapii, patogeneticheskoe lechenie, reabilitatcionnye i profilakticheskie meropriiatiia. Prednaznacheno dlia terapevtov, pulmonologov, infektcionistov i vrachei drugikh spetcialnostei, a takzhe dlia studentov meditcinskikh vuzov.