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Round pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae in a child

Round pneumonia is a disease commonly recognized in the pediatric age group, especially under the age of 8 years. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common agent causing this characteristic type of pneumonia. We herein report a case of a 6-year-old boy with only mild cough and low-grade fever who...

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Autores principales: Koinuma, Goro, Shinjoh, Masayoshi, Kageyama, Tomoka, Nakazawa, Maki, Kamimaki, Isamu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6348194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30701012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2019.01.010
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author Koinuma, Goro
Shinjoh, Masayoshi
Kageyama, Tomoka
Nakazawa, Maki
Kamimaki, Isamu
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description Round pneumonia is a disease commonly recognized in the pediatric age group, especially under the age of 8 years. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common agent causing this characteristic type of pneumonia. We herein report a case of a 6-year-old boy with only mild cough and low-grade fever who was then diagnosed with round pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae. He had multiple round opacities in the right lower lung field, and the symptoms subsided soon after oral administration of antibiotics.
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spelling pubmed-63481942019-01-30 Round pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae in a child Koinuma, Goro Shinjoh, Masayoshi Kageyama, Tomoka Nakazawa, Maki Kamimaki, Isamu Radiol Case Rep Pediatric Round pneumonia is a disease commonly recognized in the pediatric age group, especially under the age of 8 years. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common agent causing this characteristic type of pneumonia. We herein report a case of a 6-year-old boy with only mild cough and low-grade fever who was then diagnosed with round pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae. He had multiple round opacities in the right lower lung field, and the symptoms subsided soon after oral administration of antibiotics. Elsevier 2019-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6348194/ /pubmed/30701012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2019.01.010 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Koinuma, Goro
Shinjoh, Masayoshi
Kageyama, Tomoka
Nakazawa, Maki
Kamimaki, Isamu
Round pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae in a child
title Round pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae in a child
title_full Round pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae in a child
title_fullStr Round pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae in a child
title_full_unstemmed Round pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae in a child
title_short Round pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae in a child
title_sort round pneumonia due to chlamydia pneumoniae in a child
topic Pediatric
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6348194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30701012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2019.01.010
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