Latham-Sadler B A, Morell V W
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA.
Prim Care. 1996 Dec;23(4):837-48. doi: 10.1016/s0095-4543(05)70365-1.
Acute respiratory infections are the most common illnesses in the pediatric age group. Although pneumonia accounts for only 10% to 15% of all respiratory infections, it causes significant morbidity and mortality among children. Even in the age of multigenerational antibiotics and ever-emerging antiviral agents the recognition, differentiation, and treatment of pneumonia in the pediatric age group continues to be a challenge. The focus of this article is limited to viral and atypical pneumonias. Viral or Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection has been detected in 17% to 31% of outpatient pneumonias studied.
急性呼吸道感染是儿童年龄组中最常见的疾病。尽管肺炎仅占所有呼吸道感染的10%至15%，但它在儿童中会导致显著的发病率和死亡率。即使在多代抗生素和不断涌现的抗病毒药物的时代，儿童年龄组肺炎的识别、鉴别和治疗仍然是一项挑战。本文的重点仅限于病毒性肺炎和非典型肺炎。在研究的门诊肺炎病例中，17%至31%检测出病毒或肺炎支原体感染。
