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Japanese Guidelines for the Management of Respiratory Infectious Diseases in Children 2007 with focus on pneumonia
Author(s) -
Uehara Suzuko,
Sunakawa Keisuke,
Eguchi Hiroyuki,
Ouchi Kazunobu,
Okada Kenji,
Kurosaki Tomomichi,
Suzuki Hiroshi,
Tsutsumi Hiroyuki,
Haruta Tsunekazu,
Mitsuda Toshihiro,
Yamazaki Tsutomu
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
pediatrics international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.49
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1442-200X
pISSN - 1328-8067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-200x.2010.03316.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumonia , streptococcus pneumoniae , pediatric infectious disease , intensive care medicine , mycoplasma pneumoniae , haemophilus influenzae , pulmonology , sputum , pediatrics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , immunology , antibiotics , disease , pathology , tuberculosis , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Members of the Japanese Society of Pediatric Pulmonology and the Japanese Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases developed the Guidelines for the Management of Respiratory Infectious Diseases in Children with the objective of facilitating the appropriate diagnosis and treatment of childhood respiratory infections. To date, a first edition (2004) and a revised edition (2007) have been issued. Many problems complicate the diagnosis of the pathogens responsible for bronchopulmonary infections in children. The Guidelines were the first pediatric guidelines in the world to recommend treatment with antimicrobials suited to causative pathogens as identified from cultures of sputum and other clinical specimens collected from infection sites and satisfying assessment criteria. The major causative microorganisms for pneumonia in infants and children were revealed to be Streptococcus pneumoniae , Haemophilus influenzae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae . This manuscript describes the Guidelines for the Management of Respiratory Infectious Diseases in Children in Japan 2007 , with a focus on pneumonia.