TY - JOUR AU - Zambolin, Marta AU - Cavallaro, Antonietta AU - Da Dalt, Liviana AU - Andreola, Barbara AU - Scarin, Marino PY - 2007/03/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - La polmonite da Streptococcus pneumoniae in età pediatrica: aspetti clinici e microbiologici. JF - Microbiologia Medica JA - Microbiol Med VL - 22 IS - 1 SE - Short Communications DO - 10.4081/mm.2007.2904 UR - https://www.pagepressjournals.org/mm/article/view/2904 SP - AB - Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is still a pediatric common illness that afflicts children troughout the world. Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the most common and virulent pathogens so an early diagnosis is very important to do a right treatment. Our study has evaluated the role of symptoms, chest radiograph and microbiological test to determine a S.pneumoniae pneumonia.We conducted a prospective study from January to September 2005 including 44 children (1month-15 years old) admitted to the Padova Pediatric ED suffering from pneumonia confirmed with a chest radiograph. From the obtained results the nasopharyngeal aspirate culture and the pneumococcal urine antigen are complementary and we can make a right diagnosis if we associate this test with symptoms and laboratory test. ER -