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== Overview ==
== Overview ==
Bacterial pneumonia can affect any age group, gender, or race and has no significant relation to family history. It tends to affect men more often than women, and is more common in African Americans compared to Caucasians. Socioeconomic status is an important contributing factors and may explain the increased prevalence rate in low to middle income nations.  
Bacterial pneumonia can affect any age group, gender, or race and has no significant relation to family history. It tends to affect men more often than women, and is more common in African Americans compared to Caucasians. Socioeconomic status is an important contributing factors and may explain the increased prevalence rate in low to middle income nations.<ref name="pmid27633638">{{cite journal| author=Roomaney RA, Pillay-van Wyk V, Awotiwon OF, Dhansay A, Groenewald P, Joubert JD | display-authors=etal| title=Epidemiology of lower respiratory infection and pneumonia in South Africa (1997-2015): a systematic review protocol. | journal=BMJ Open | year= 2016 | volume= 6 | issue= 9 | pages= e012154 | pmid=27633638 | doi=10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012154 | pmc=5030548 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=27633638  }} </ref>
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Overview

Bacterial pneumonia can affect any age group, gender, or race and has no significant relation to family history. It tends to affect men more often than women, and is more common in African Americans compared to Caucasians. Socioeconomic status is an important contributing factors and may explain the increased prevalence rate in low to middle income nations.[1]

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