Acute lower respiratory tract infections in children.
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2009-06
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Abstract
Acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRTI) is a common illness, but there have
been relatively few studies of the bacterial etiology in developing countries.
Nasopharyngeal aspirates of 70 children under 10 years of age with ALRTI were
cultured for aerobic bacterial pathogens. Klebsiella pneumoniae was the
commonest organism (32.2%) isolated followed by S. pneumoniae (10%), E. coli
(10%), P. aeruginosa (5.7%), S. aureus (2.8%) and H. influenzae (1.4%). There
were significantly more bacterial pathogens isolated in children <1 year of age
(73.7%) than in those >1 year of age (56.2%) (P=0.03). A shift in spectrum from
Gram-positive cocci to Gram-negative bacilli in ALRTI was observed in our study.
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Acute lower respiratory tract infection, Etiology, Klebsiella, Pneumonia
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Taneja Juhi, Malik Abida, Malik Ashraf, Rizvi Meher, Agarwal Mithlesh. Acute lower respiratory tract infections in children. Indian Pediatrics. 2009 June; 46(6): 509-511.