Background: A study was undertaken to investigate the differential diagnostic role of chest
radiographic findings, total white blood cell count (WBC), erythrocyte sedimentation rate …

This study assessed the clinical value of routine follow‐up chest radiographs in hospitalized
children with community‐acquired pneumonia. The study population consisted of 196 …

Background: Microbe‐specific diagnosis of pediatric community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP)
and the distinction between typical‐bacterial, atypical‐bacterial and viral cases are difficult …

Sixty‐one children were treated in hospital from 1981 to 1982 because of both radiologically
and microbiologically verified viral or bacterial pneumonia. The chest radiographs were …

Viral and bacterial antigen and antibody assays were prospectively applied to study the
microbial actiology of community-acquired pneumonia in 195 hospitalised children during a …

Background. Childhood community-acquired pneumonia is a common illness, but there
have been relatively few comprehensive studies of the viral and bacterial etiology in …

Objective: To evaluate the value of clinical features in differentiating between viral,
pneumococcal and atypical bacterial pneumonia in children. Design: A retrospective …

The chest roqntgenograms of 128 consecutive ambulatory children with radiologic
pneumonia were read independently and without clinical informa tion by a faculty general …

Abstract 58 paediatric patients with pneumonia, in whom an etiological agent had been
isolated, were reviewed. The patients were designated to have either viral or bacterial …

The cause and clinical manifestations of pneumonia were studied in 98 pediatric
outpatients. A viral diagnosis was established in 38 (39%) of the 98 patients, and a bacterial …