Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Adenovirus Coinfection Cause Pediatric Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia

• DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00026-22
• Publication Date: 2022-03-21T13:27:10Z
• Authors: Fei Li; Yuhan Zhang; Peng Shi; Linfeng Cao; Liyun Su; Pan Fu; Kuerbanjiang Abud...; Libo Wang; Yin Wang; Roujian Lu; Wenjie Tan; Jun Shen
• Keywords: Pulmonary Atelectasis; 0303 health sciences; Coinfection; Adenoviridae Infections; Infant; severe community-acquired pneumonia; Pneumonia; Microbiology; QR1-502; Adenoviridae; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; 3. Good health; Community-Acquired Infections; 03 medical and health sciences; children; Humans; alveolar lavage fluid; Child; consolidation; multiple polymerase chain reaction; pathogen; Research Article; Retrospective Studies

Pathogens that cause pediatric severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP) requiring bronchoscopy intervention are understudied. Through this study, we explore the etiology of SCAP form alveolar lavage fluid (ALF) samples by the RespiFinder 2SMART multi-PCR assay.