Acute glomerulonephritis secondary to lobar pneumonia.
We report 4 cases of children who developed lobar pneumonia and subsequently acute glomerulonephritis, all within a period of six weeks. In one case streptococcus pneumonia type 5 was isolated, a strain not previously described in the literature as being nephritogenic.
Schachter
J
J
Department of Paediatrics, Meir General Hospital, Kfar Saba, Israel.
Pomeranz
A
A
Berger
I
I
Wolach
B
B
D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011018:Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / Q000150:complications*