Correspondence Long-term Survival in Community-Acquired Pneumonia Caused by Other Bacteria Than Pneumococci Is ImpairedMore Than in

the study by Sandvall and colleagues [1], in which they report mortality rates up to 32.2%, 10 years after initial recovery from pneumococcal pneumonia. Although this study provides important information and is the largest to date on long-term outcome of microbiologically confirmed pneumo-coccal pneumonia, we would like to add some comments. In 2011 we published cause-specific long-term mortality rates of 356 prospec-tively identified consecutive patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) [2]. In this population, the mortality rate 7 years after initial survival of an episode o