Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Respiratory diseases occupy one of the leading places in the structure of morbidity and mortality in children. Pneumonia plays an important role among them. This is due to both the high frequency of respiratory tract lesions in children and the severity of the prognosis of many late diagnosed and untreated pneumonia [1,2]. In Uzbekistan, the incidence of pneumonia in children is in the range of 6.3-11.9% [1]. One of the main reasons for the increase in the number of pneumonia is a high level of diagnostic errors and late diagnosis. The proportion of pneumonia, in which the clinical picture does not correspond to the X-ray data, has significantly increased, and the number of low-symptom forms of the disease has increased [1,3]. There are also difficulties in the etiological diagnosis of pneumonia, since over time the list of pathogens is expanded and modified. More recently, community-acquired pneumonia was associated mainly with Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Institution: Samarkand State Medical Institute
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4313377378