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Atypical Pathogens Causing Community-Acquired Pneumonia In Adults., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Afia Zafar, Nawal Salahuddin, Ahmed Suleman Haque, Shahan Waheed, Javaid Khan
Atypical Pathogens Causing Community-Acquired Pneumonia In Adults., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Afia Zafar, Nawal Salahuddin, Ahmed Suleman Haque, Shahan Waheed, Javaid Khan
Department of Medicine
Objective: To determine the frequency of community-acquired respiratory pathogens with special focus on atypical organisms in patients presenting to a tertiary care facility with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).
Methods: The descriptive study on adult patients was conducted from February 2007 to March 2008 at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. It comprised 124 consenting patients of age 16 and above who presentd with a diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia. The diagnostic modalities used were based on significant changes in antibody titer or persisting high antibody titers in the case of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chalmydia pneumoniae infections, or bacterial antigen in urine, in …