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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 2000 46(5):307-309; doi:10.1093/tropej/46.5.307
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Brief report. Pneumonia in ventilated babies in an emerging country: clinical features, aetiology and short-term outcome

S KlingZ and RP Gie

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Tygerberg Hospital and University of Stellenbosch, PO Box 19063, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa Z Corresponding author Tel: 27 21 9385783 Fax: 27 21 9389138 E-mail: sk@gerga.sun.ac.za

Forty-four babies (<6 months) with pneumonia admitted for ventilation to a paediatric ICU serving a low-income community, were studied. Twenty-three per cent had been ventilated during the neonatal period and three had bronchopulmonary dysplasia. The median duration of symptoms was 1.5 days; 45 per cent presented with apnoea. Five babies (11 per cent) died. Blood cultures were positive in six children (14 per cent). Viruses were cultured in 13 children (30 per cent).


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