[PDF] Top 20 Survey of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in Iranian children with acute lower respiratory tract infections

... Objectives: Mycoplasma pneumoniae is an atypical pathogen, which is one of the major causes of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) ...role of M. ... See full document

... cause of childhood acute lower respiratory infection and is responsible for annual outbreaks worldwide ...results in upper respiratory tract illness characterized by ... See full document

... INTRODUCTION: Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are one of the commonest causes of morbidity and mortality in children in developing ...deaths in young ... See full document

... proportion of mild to severe disease varies between high and low income countries 12 ...severity of lower respiratory tract infections in children younger than five ... See full document

... cause of acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRTI) in the first year of life, resulting in hospitalization of nearly 120,000 children ... See full document

... symptoms of ALRI as per the WHO ARI Control Programme were found in almost all ...observed in a small percentage, but significant association with ALRI severity was observed for ...information ... See full document

... upper respiratory inflammation, bronchitis and a pneumonia, mainly in children and young ...beginning of 1990, Mycoplasma pneumonia was thought to be a pathogen that causes pneumonia ... See full document

... Mycoplasma pneumoniae is one of the main causes of persistent cough in patients infected with Bordetella ...agent of a persistent cough that lasted less than 100 days ... See full document

... cases of ARDS, there is clear evidence in the literature of reliable use of corticosteroids in extremely severe cases of ...M. pneumoniae ARDS. Other patients with ... See full document

... cases of asthma (n = 521) during a ...932) in a geographically defined area in South ...on respiratory infections was collected by a self-administered ...diagnosis of asthma was ... See full document

... presented with a clinical diagnosis of LRTI were se- lected for additional screening for eight respiratory virus- ...reactions with previously described primers and conditions (Stockton et ... See full document

... methods of direct diagnosis for adenovirus detection include the isolation in cell culture and immunofluorescence ...Isolation in cell culture presents a good sensitivity; however, it demands time ... See full document

... patients with exacerbation of chronic bronchitis, the attempts to isolate the etiologic agent are unsuccessful due to the frequent previous administration of antibiotics and because of ... See full document

... None of our cultures were positive for methicillin-resis- tant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which differs from the literature, 4,7,18 and that suggests that MRSA grows in coun- tries where the use ... See full document

... Percentage overprescription of antibiotics (cases where antibiotics were prescribed over the total number of cases seen) for mild ARI episodes in study children un[r] ... See full document

... To date, Costa Rica’s experience suggests that developing country efforts against acute respiratory infections could focus most profitably on epidemiologic and etio-[r] ... See full document

... history of inability to ...period. In the first admission, 12 h after the onset of the symptoms, she presented abdominal pain and acute urinary ...catheterization of 300 mL of ... See full document

... treatment of Brazilian Guarani indigenous children aged less than five years hospitalized for acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI), living in villages in the states ... See full document

... cases of pneu- monia (6.5%, corresponding to 0.51 episodes per 100 children-month) and 71 cases of bronchiolitis ...months of age. Regarding bronchiolitis, 14 children had one recurrent ... See full document

... age lower than 29 weeks, after hospital discharge, and children younger than 2 years, with hemodynamically unstable cardiopathy or chronic pulmonary disease, who needed treatment in the 6 ... See full document