RT Journal
A1 Jacobs NM, Harris VJ
T1 ACute haemophilus pneumonia in childhood
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1979
FD June 1
VO 133
IS 6
SP 603
OP 605
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130060043008
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130060043008
AB • In our hospital Haemophilus influenzae type B seems to be a common cause of acute childhood pneumonia. In the past five years, 34 children with acute Haemophilus pneumonia were identified. Although these children generally had an uncomplicated segmental pneumonia associated with a bacteremia, 13 of the children had pneumonia with a pleural effusion. These children with Haemophilus pneumonia represented 18% of the children hospitalized with systemic Haemophilus disease and almost a third of those hospitalized with acute bacterial pneumonia from whom the causal agent was isolated.(Am J Dis Child 133:603-605, 1979)