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Article: Necrotizing pneumonia on the rise in pediatric populations.(Infectious Diseases)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- May 15, 2008
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FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. -- More children with pneumonia are developing necrotizing pneumonia from an increasing variety of infectious agents, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, according to a retrospective, 15-year study.
"Necrotizing pneumonia is real," Dr. Andrew Colin said, noting that if a child has a persistent fever that does not respond to treatment for 3 or more weeks, along with pleural effusions suggesting community-acquired pneumonia, consider coexisting necrotizing pneumonia.
Multiple organisms are playing a role, "including a lot of necrotizing pneumonias [in which] we do not know the organism. These could be mycoplasma," ...