THE CLINICAL AND SUBCLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE AND CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE PNEUMONIA IN CHILDREN IN VIETNAM NATIONAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

Hà Thị Thanh Vân1,, Nguyễn Thị Yến2
1 Vietnam National Children's Hospital
2 Hanoi Medical University

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A descriptive cross-sectional study about the clinical and subclinical characteristics was performed on 109 children aged between 1 - 15 years old with MP or CP pneumonia in Vietnam National Children's Hospital from July 2020 to August 2021. MP and CP pneumonia were more commonly detected in children between 1 to 5 years old (57.1% và 62.7%). Clinical manifestations in both groups had similar, the most common symptoms and signs were cough (100%; 97.1%), fever (85.7%; 96.1%), wheezing (57.1%; 25.6%) and rales sound in the lungs (57.1%; 57.8%), respectively. CP pneumonia generally has mild fever (85.7%) and was not seen with respiratory failure, MP pneumonia often has high fever (66.7%) and may have respiratory failure (21.6%). The most common of thoracic radiography was hilar adenopathy and lobe consolidation. Pleural effusion was recorded in patients with MP (4.9%). Blood tests showed that in most cases have a high white blood cells and CRP level.

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