1. Acute Haemophilus pneumonia in childhood.
- Author
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Jacobs NM and Harris VJ
- Subjects
- Acute Disease, Age Factors, Chicago, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Haemophilus isolation & purification, Humans, Infant, Male, Pneumonia complications, Pneumonia epidemiology, Pneumonia, Pneumococcal epidemiology, Sepsis epidemiology, Sepsis microbiology, Staphylococcal Infections epidemiology, Streptococcal Infections epidemiology, Haemophilus Infections epidemiology, Pneumonia microbiology
- Abstract
In our hospital Haemophilus influenzae type B seems to be a common cause of acute childhood pneumonia. In the past five years, 34 children with acute Haemophilus pneumonia were identified. Although these children generally had an uncomplicated segmental pneumonia associated with a bacteremia, 13 of the children had pneumonia with a pleural effusion. These children with Haemophilus pneumonia represented 18% of the children hospitalized with systemic Haemophilus disease and almost a third of those hospitalized with acute bacterial pneumonia from whom the causal agent was isolated.
- Published
- 1979
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