Necrotizing Pneumonia in Children

• DOI: 10.1097/inf.0b013e31829be1bb
• Publication Date: 2013-05-30T11:20:49Z
• Authors: Chloé Lemaître; François Angoulvant; Flaviu Gabor; Juliette Makhoul; Stéphane Bonacorsi; Jérôme Naudin; Marianne Alison; Albert Faye; Edouard Bingen; Mathie Lorrot
• Keywords: Male; Adolescent; Infant; 3. Good health; Community-Acquired Infections; Hospitalization; Tertiary Care Centers; Necrosis; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Child, Preschool; Pneumonia, Bacterial; Humans; Female; France; Child; Retrospective Studies

Forty-one children hospitalized for necrotizing pneumonia were retrospectively analyzed. Necrotizing pneumonia represented 0.8% of community-acquired pneumonia and 6% of hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia. The chest radiograph revealed necrosis on admission in onethird of cases. Twenty-one cases (51%) were documented, including 13 Staphylococcus aureus, all Panton-Valentine leukocidin positive, 7 Streptococcus pneumoniae and 1 Fusobacterium nucleatum.