title: [Etiology, clinical manifestations, and epidemiology in community-acquired respiratory infection in children in the Khabarovsk region].
abstract: Clinico-epidemiological analysis and etiological verification of the outbreak of respiratory infection among school children in a rural district of the Khabarovsk territory, registered in spring 1997, were made. According to clinical signs, one-third of the patients had whooping cough, while the rest of the children exhibited the signs of respiratory infection with the symptoms of longering bronchitis. A half of the children had not been vaccinated against whooping cough, as they had been given injections of adsorbed DT vaccine with reduced antigen content. Etiologically, the diagnosis of whooping cough was confirmed in 57% of the patients with 47.4% of them having Bordetella pertussis monoinfection and 52.6% having mixed infection, mainly in combination with chlamydiosis. Whooping cough took an abnormal course under these circumstances. Treatment with erythromycin produced a good effect.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Motherhood and Childhood Protection, Far-Eastern State Medical University, Khabarovsk, Russia.
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Kholodok
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Morozova
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Kozlov
authors.forename: I P
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Sysoletina
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Nagovitsyna
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Vorontsova
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Kogut
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Reznik
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Ivanova
authors.forename: O S
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Kramerova
authors.forename: E N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Ivanov
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Pashkina
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002690:Chlamydia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D012424:Rural Population; D012800:Siberia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014611:Vaccination; D014917:Whooping Cough / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology