Staphylococcal Pneumonia in Infants

Comparative Efficacy of Diagnostic Procedures in Pneumonia in Children

“…Growth of Gram positive cocci could be dem› onstrated in 38 (45.25%) cases where only 6 (7.15 %) cases grew Gram negative organisms. Our observations are in accordance with oth› ers [17][18][19]. Strept pneumoniae was the com› monest organism isolated in other studies as well as in ours [14,15,17].…”

“…Gram positive cocci in majority of cases have been reported by other workers as well [16,17]. Laryngeal swab culture positivity of 58% by Disney et al [18] and 62.6% by Kalra et al [17] agree well with our findings. The utility of lung juice culture was estab› lished with positivity in 52.4% of cases which was the highest among all the cultures.…”

“…The culture positivity was 52.5% in former (Table 2). Disney et al [18] and Silver› man et al [4] have documented that laryngeal swab culture was positive in 58% and 73% cases, compared to lung aspirate culture Which was positive in 56% and 79% cases respectively, supporting our observations.…”

“…In neonates gastric aspirate culture was positive in 45% whereas only 18.2% blood cultures were positive. Thus gastric aspirate culture is superior to blood culture.…”

Reappraisal of Lung Tap: Review of an Old Method for Better Etiologic Diagnosis of Childhood Pneumonia

“…We can say with near certainty that our finding of a preponderance of studies in recent decades did not reflect an inability to locate previously published reports, but, rather, indicated diminished publishing activity during earlier decades. As might be expected, interest in lung tap collapsed with the advent of antimicrobial agents in Europe and North America, where the last reports on lung tap were published in 1956 [23] and 1975 [24], respectively. by Horder in 1909 [17].…”