Hassan Awad Atwa Elatroush

The role of mycoplasma pneumoniae, chlamydia pneumoniae and legionella pneumophilia in community acquired pneumonia in children / دورالميكوبلازما الرئوية: الكلاميديا الرئوية و الليجيونيلا فى الالتهاب الرئوى المجتمعى فى الأطفال Hassan Awad Atwa Elatroush ; Supervised Hala Hamdy Shaaban , Noussa Ragab Mohamed , May Mohamed Sherif - Cairo : Hassan Awad Atwa Elatroush , 2016 - 98 P. : charts ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics

This study was done aiming at investigating the role of M. pneumoniae, C. pneumoniae and L. pneumophilia in (CAP) in children. This study included 200 Egyptian children aged from more than one month to 12 years presented to emergency department of Cairo university children's hospital with CAP. Nasopharyngeal aspirate were examined for these three atypical pathogens using multiplex (PCR). The study showed that atypical pathogens represent 1% of CAP in children



Atypical pathogens CAP Children