NECROTIZING PNEUMONIA IN CHILDREN: REPORT OF 41 CASES BETWEEN 2006 AND 2011 IN A FRENCH TERTIARY CARE CENTER

Forty-one children hospitalized for necrotizing pneumonia were retrospectively analyzed. Necrotizing pneumonia represented 0.8% of community-acquired pneumonia and 6% of hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia. The chest radiograph revealed necrosis on admission in onethird of cases. Twenty-one ca...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Pediatric infectious disease journal 2013-10, Vol.32 (10), p.1146-1149
Hauptverfasser:	LEMAITRE, Chloé, ANGOULVANT, François, GABOR, Flaviu, MAKHOUL, Juliette, BONACORSI, Stéphane, NAUDIN, Jérôme, ALISON, Marianne, FAYE, Albert, BINGEN, Edouard, LORROT, Mathie
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Bacterial diseases Biological and medical sciences Child Child, Preschool Community-Acquired Infections - drug therapy Community-Acquired Infections - epidemiology Community-Acquired Infections - microbiology Community-Acquired Infections - pathology Female France - epidemiology Hospitalization Human bacterial diseases Humans Infant Infectious diseases Male Medical sciences Necrosis - microbiology Pneumology Pneumonia, Bacterial - drug therapy Pneumonia, Bacterial - epidemiology Pneumonia, Bacterial - microbiology Pneumonia, Bacterial - pathology Respiratory system : syndromes and miscellaneous diseases Retrospective Studies Staphylococcal infections, streptococcal infections, pneumococcal infections Tertiary Care Centers
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Zusammenfassung:	Forty-one children hospitalized for necrotizing pneumonia were retrospectively analyzed. Necrotizing pneumonia represented 0.8% of community-acquired pneumonia and 6% of hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia. The chest radiograph revealed necrosis on admission in onethird of cases. Twenty-one cases (51%) were documented, including 13 Staphylococcus aureus, all Panton-Valentine leukocidin positive, 7 Streptococcus pneumoniae and 1 Fusobacterium nucleatum.
ISSN:	0891-3668 1532-0987
DOI:	10.1097/INF.0b013e31829be1bb