Table 4.
Pathogens Detected With Children With and Without Underlying Conditions With Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
| Underlying condition | No pathogen detected | Viral pathogen | Bacterial pathogen | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSV | Influenza | Other1 | S. pneumo | Staph aureus | M. tb | Hib | M. pneum | ||
| None (505) | 1932 | 131 | 40 | 31 | 30 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 55 |
| CHD (137) | 59 | 25 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| CHD with T21 (10) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| T21 (25) | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| ND (25) | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| ID (7) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 278 (39%) | 171 (24%) | 56 (8%) | 42 (6%) | 46 (7%) | 1 (<1%) | 9 (1%) | 30 (4%) | 76 (11%) |
S. pneumo, Streptococcus pneumoniae; Staph aureus, Staphylococcus aureus; M. tb, Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Hib, Haemophilus influenzae b; M. pneum, Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
Other viruses = parainfluenza and adenoviruses.
Ten children had either S. pneumoniae(5) or H. influenza b(5) isolated from nasopharyngeal aspirates but as this can be part of normal nasopharyngeal flora they were excluded in the totals for bacterial pathogens. None of the 10 had an underlying condition.
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