Etiological spectrum of children pneumonia

Abstract

The results of more than 15-year studying the acute pneumonia etiology are given. Significant differences between out-of-hospital and hospital pneumonia have been marked out on the basis of complex studies of the acute pneumonia etiological structures.
As it has been convincingly proved the pneumococcus played the leading role as an etiological factor for the acute pneumonia of children from 6 months up to 7 years. Considerable differences have been revealed for the acute pneumonia’s etiology considering children younger than 6 months when chlamydea and gram-negative flora play the leading role. The increasing role of non-bacterial pathogenes (mykoplasma and TWAR chlamidea) is shown for the children of school age.
The data obtained make it possible to formulate the general recommendations for the choice of the starting antibacterial medicine depending on the sick child’s age.