Agarwal Jyotsna, Awasthi Shally, Rajput Anuradha, Tiwari Manoj, Jain Amita
Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Trop Doct. 2009 Apr;39(2):109-11. doi: 10.1258/td.2008.080248.
A total of 243 children aged one month to five years with World Health Organization defined severe community acquired pneumonia were studied for the presence of atypical bacterial pathogens: 24 were found positive for mycoplasma infection. There was no significant association with any of the clinical, laboratory and radiological variables in children with pneumonia by the atypical pathogen.
对243名年龄在1个月至5岁之间、患有世界卫生组织定义的重症社区获得性肺炎的儿童进行了非典型细菌病原体检测:发现24名儿童支原体感染呈阳性。非典型病原体所致肺炎患儿的临床、实验室及影像学变量与感染均无显著相关性。