RT Book, Section
A1 Pelton, Stephen I.
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 7023608
T1 Chapter 240. Community-Acquired and Bacterial Pneumonia in Children
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7023608
RD 2024/04/18
AB Worldwide,  community-acquired  pneumonia  is  a  leading  cause  of  infectious  morbidity  and  mortality  in  children.1Studies  that  employ  blood  culture,  serology,  and  polymerase  chain  reaction,  as  well  as  those  that  use  pneumococcal  conjugate  vaccines  as  a  probe  to  determine  the  proportion  of  disease  due  to  Streptococcus  pneumoniae,  suggest  that  pneumococcus  is  the  major  pathogen  in  community-acquired  pneumonia  in  children,  frequently  in  the  presence  of  concurrent  viral  respiratory  infection.  Several  observations  such  as  the  presence  of  patchy  perihilar  infiltrates  on  x-ray  suggests  that  most  cases  of  bacterial  pneumonia  result  from  aspiration  of  nasopharyngeal  organisms  and  provide  the  rationale  that  respiratory  tract  flora,  nontypeable  Haemophilus  influenzae,  Streptococcus  pyogenes,  Moraxella  catahhralis,  Staphylococcus  aureus,  and  S  pneumoniae  are  the  major  bacterial  pathogens  in  pediatric  pneumonia.