Etiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Hospitalized School-Age Children: Evidence for High Prevalence of Viral Infections
Clinical Infectious Diseases2004Vol. 39(5), pp. 681–686
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Μαρία Τσολιά, Stelios Psarras, Apostolos Bossios, H. Audi, Mika Paldanius, Dimitrios Gourgiotis, K. Kallergi, Dimitrios Kafetzis, A. Constantopoulos, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos
Abstract
The high prevalence of viral and mixed viral-bacterial infections supports the notion that the presence of a virus, acting either as a direct or an indirect pathogen, may be the rule rather than the exception in the development of CAP in school-age children requiring hospitalization.
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