Research Journal of Medical Sciences
ISSN: Online 1993-6095ISSN: Print 1815-9346
Abstract
The diagnosis of pneumococcal infection is established by the recovery of S. pneumoniae from the site of infection or the blood/sterile body fluid. Blood cultures/relevant body fluid culture should be obtained in children with pneumonia, meningitis, arthritis, osteomyelitis, peritonitis, pericarditis, or gangrenous skin lesions. All the prospective data were collected from patients using structured proforma along with their culture reports with the help of the microbiology labs. The data for the present study was collected from microbiology unit and was recorded in pre designed study proforma. The data edited for completeness and consistency before transferring into MS Excel for further analysis. Since the present study was descriptive, MS excel was used for the analysis purposes. The continuous variables were expressed as mean and as frequency distribution for categorical variables. The organism separation, susceptible and resistant were analyzed using formal method of MS‐excel. In this study over period of one year 41 children were diagnosed with IPDs. Age group under study was 0‐18 years, with <1 month being 1, 1‐12 months being 12, 1‐5 years are 18 cases and >5 yrs being 10 cases with mean age of 39.6 months and median of 36 months among total 41 children, 27 males (65.9%) and 14 were females (34.1%). 4 children had CNS infections (9.8%), 5 children had LRTI (12.2%), 1 child had combined LRTI and CNS infection (2.4% and 31 children had pneumococcal sepsis (75.6%).
How to cite this article:
Radha , P. Aparna Reddy and Ranganathan Iyer. Epidemiology of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Pediatric Age Group in a Tertiary Care Hospital.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/10.36478/makrjms.2025.1.461.465
URL: https://www.makhillpublications.co/view-article/1815-9346/10.36478/makrjms.2025.1.461.465