Bacterial Causes of Empyema in Children, Australia, 2007–2009

Bacterial Causes of Empyema in Children, Australia, 2007–2009

An increase in the incidence of empyema worldwide could be related to invasive pneumococcal disease caused by emergent nonvaccine replacement serotypes. To determine bacterial pathogens and pneumococcal serotypes that cause empyema in children in Australia, we conducted a 2-year study of 174 childre...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Roxanne E. Strachan, Anita Cornelius, Gwendolyn L. Gilbert, Tanya Gulliver, Andrew Martin, Tim McDonald, Gillian M. Nixon, Rob Roseby, Sarath Ranganathan, Hiran Selvadurai, Greg Smith, Manuel Soto-Martinez, Sadasivam Suresh, Laurel Teoh, Kiran Thapa, Claire E. Wainwright, Adam Jaffé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011-10-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Streptococcus pneumoniae
empyema
child
bacteria
polymerase chain reaction
Australia
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/10/10-1825_article

Internet

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/10/10-1825_article

Similar Items