Community-acquired pneumonia in children.
The clinical findings and etiologic agents of childhood pneumonia vary, dependent upon the age of the child, with major differences seen in neonates, young infants 1 to 3 months of age, older infants or young children 3 months to 5 years of age, and older children or adolescents. Appropriate medical management and antibiotic therapy of children with pneumonia require consideration of these various age-dependent factors. Commonly the bacterial or viral etiologic agent causing community-acquired childhood pneumonia is not identified and thus antibiotic therapy is based on the probability of the most likely causative organisms. The choice of antibiotic for continuation of therapy is based on the clinical response to empiric therapy.
Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0244.
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Gilsdorf
D000293:Adolescent; D001424:Bacterial Infections; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D011024:Pneumonia, Viral; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic