title: [Characteristics of the agents of acute suppurative destruction of the lungs in children].
abstract: The authors carried out bacteriological studies of the blood, the pleural cavity puncture material, the discharge from the bronchi in bronchoscopy, and also of smears from the nasopharynx of 40 children with acute purulent destruction of the lungs. Staphylococci, often in association with various Gram-negative bacilli, chiefly of the Pseudomonas genus, and Enterobacteriaceae family, prevailed in the cultures of the pathological material. Pathogenic staphylococcus was found in the nasopharynx of patients in 65% of cases. Along with staphylococci in over half of the patients there were revealed Gram-negative bacteria, and yeast-like Candida fungi. In the majority of patients the microbes isolated from the pharynx and the lungs were identical. In these cases bacteriological examination of pharyngeal smears can serve as an auxiliary method of laboratory diagnosis. The isolated straphylococcus strains possessed the majority of the pathogenicity signs; in the great majority of cases they were resistant to the antibiotics the most widely used in the therapeutic practice; among them strains of phage types 80, 54, 75, 77, and 81 prevailed. Thus, at different periods of the disease various types of the microbes prevailed in the materials obtained from the patients. In acute purulent destruction of the lungs bacteriological examination should be carried in dynamics.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001980:Bronchi / Q000382:microbiology; D002175:Candida / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D009297:Nasal Mucosa / Q000382:microbiology; D010614:Pharynx / Q000382:microbiology; D010994:Pleura / Q000382:microbiology; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013492:Suppuration
vernacular_title: Kharakteristika vozbuditeleĭ ostroĭ gnoĭnoĭ destruktsii legkikh u deteĭ.