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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| 宋银子教授 (医学院) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/clinids/17.5.894 |
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摘要The epidemiologic and etiologic features of cases of pneumonia among 1,740 children admitted to a teaching hospital in Hong Kong over a 3-year period were studied. Of the patients, 23% were <1 year old and 69% were <5 years old. The incidence of pneumonia requiring admission to the hospital was 6.4 episodes per 1,000 children per year for those <5 years of age. The overall case fatality rate was 0.15% among patients who did not have severe underlying disease before contracting pneumonia. A bacterial etiology was confirmed by blood culture for only 2% of patients. However, culture of sputum or nasopharyngeal aspirates yielded predominant or pure growth of one bacterial agent in 17% of cases. Haemophilus influenzae was the bacterial agent most frequently isolated from nasopharyngeal aspirates or sputum, followed by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus. Of the H. influenzae isolates, 38% were resistant to ampicillin. A viral etiology was proven in 9.1% of cases, and evidence of mycoplasmal infection was found in 3.8% of cases. Respiratory syncytial virus was the most frequently identified viral agent, followed by adenovirus and influenza A virus.
着者SUNG RYT, CHENG AFB, CHAN RCK, TAM JS, OPPENHEIMER SJ
期刊名称Clinical Infectious Diseases
出版年份1993
月份11
日期1
卷号17
期次5
出版社UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
页次894 - 896
国际标準期刊号1058-4838
电子国际标準期刊号1537-6591
语言英式英语
Web of Science 学科类别Immunology; IMMUNOLOGY; Infectious Diseases; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Microbiology; MICROBIOLOGY
