title: [Cytomegalovirus in subacute infant pneumonitis (author's transl)].
abstract: A subacute pneumonic disease of a young infant is described. Insidious onset, afebrile course, tachypnea, staccato cough, disseminated crepitations on auscultation, signs of infiltration and hyperexpansion on chest X-ray, eosinophilia as well as elevation of immunoglobulin fractions G and M suggested infection with chlamydia trachomatis. Microbiologic investigations, however, documented active infection with cytomegalovirus. Hence these symptoms were either caused by both organisms or constitute a rare monorganic manifestation of connatal cytomegalovirus disease. The syndrome of subacute pneumonia in the young infant might not necessarily depend on the infection with a specific organism.
mesh_terms: D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000032:analysis; D007223:Infant; D011024:Pneumonia, Viral / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D007075:Immunoglobulin M
vernacular_title: Zytomegalie und subakute Süglingspneumonie.