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Gaceta Médica Boliviana
versión impresa ISSN 1012-2966versión On-line ISSN 2227-3662
Resumen
TORRICO VILLARROEL, Nattaly Grecia; COPANA OLMOS, Raúl; GEMIO MUNOZ, María José y VENEROS PARICOLLO, María de los Ángeles. Microbial co-infections in hospitalized children with community-acquired pneumonia in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Gac Med Bol [online]. 2025, vol.48, n.1, pp.19-24. Epub 30-Jun-2025. ISSN 1012-2966. https://doi.org/10.47993/gmb.v48i1.967.
Respiratory infections are a significant cause of mortality in children under five years of age. In many cases, these correspond to severe pneumonia and can be caused by more than one microbial agent.
Objectives:
to analyze the behavior of microbial coinfections that occur in pediatric patients hospitalized for severe pneumonia in a national reference pediatric hospital.
Methods:
48 patients under 5 years of age hospitalized between April and August 2023 with a diagnosis of severe pneumonia were included. Bacterial and viral respiratory pathogens were detected by multiple real-time PCR. The epidemiological information in the medical records was reviewed.
Results:
87,5 % presented a positive result for the molecular detection of any of the pathogens under study, the most frequently detected pathogens were respiratory syncytial virus, Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pneumoniae, in 52% there was simultaneous detection of the agent viral and bacterial, presenting more complications in this group.
Conclusions:
severe community-acquired pneumonias are mainly associated with viral infections or coinfections.
Palabras clave : coinfection; bacterial pneumonia; viral pneumonia; PCR.
