TY - BOOK AU - Hassan Awad Atwa Elatroush AU - Hala Hamdy Shaaban , AU - May Mohamed Sherif , AU - Noussa Ragab Mohamed , TI - The role of mycoplasma pneumoniae, chlamydia pneumoniae and legionella pneumophilia in community acquired pneumonia in children / PY - 2016/// CY - Cairo : PB - Hassan Awad Atwa Elatroush , KW - Atypical pathogens KW - CAP KW - Children N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 ER -