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Article: Necrotizing pneumonia diagnoses are on rise.(News)
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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MONTREAL -- Necrotizing pneumonia is a more common complication of community-acquired pediatric pneumonia than was previously appreciated, Dr. Gregory Sawicki and associates reported at the Seventh International Congress on Pediatric Pulmonology.
An analysis of 80 cases at Children's Hospital Boston identified a rise in cases from 12 during 1993-1996 to 29 in 2003-2005, and a troubling increase in new pathogens. "Though pneumococcus was the prevailing pathogen, we observed a rising trend of different causative microbiology including MRSA [methicillin-resist ant Staphylococcus aureus]," said Dr. Sawicki, of the hospital's respiratory diseases unit. Despite the ...