Abstract
This work investigated etiology of communityacquired pneumonia in children at SanktPetersburg from 1998 to 2001 using microbiological and immunological methods. S.pneumoniae was found to be a cause of pneumonia in 74.5 % of the patients and it was the leading pathogen out of proportion with the children's age. C. pneumoniae was detected in 67.3 % of the patients, prevalently in children 1 to 7 years old. The acute Мycoplasma рneumoniae respiratory infection was diagnosed in 40.4 % of the children. Non typing strains of H. influenzae were yielded in 10.2 % of the patients. Most patients had microbial associations that demonstrates multiple etiology of the current community-acquired pneumonia in children. Epidemiological rise in spread of acute respiratory C. pneumoniae infection was noted during last 4 years at Sankt-Petersburg which was thought to be a cause of a sharp increase in frequency of childhood community-acquired pneumonia.
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