Detection of respiratory viral and bacterial pathogens causing pediatric community-acquired pneumonia in Beijing using real-time PCR

Zhang, Tie-Gang; Li, Ai-Hua; Lyu, Min; Chen, Meng; Huang, Fang; Wu, Jiang

We next want to identify the prevalence of specific viral and/or bacterial pathogens that were contributing to CAP. Table 3 shows the bacterial and/or viral pathogens likely to be the causative agent for disease In fact, the majority of CAP cases were associated with viral infection. Viral agents were detected in 330 of the patients (88.9%). As shown in Table 3 , the predominant infection was with respiratory syncytial virus which accounted for 43.9% (n ¼ 163) of the viral infections. Of the remaining viruses rhinovirus was associated with 14.8% (n ¼ 55) of the CAP cases, parainfluenza virus with 9.4% (n ¼ 35), adenovirus with 8.6% (n ¼ 32), human bocavirus with 3.8% (n ¼ 14), human coronaviruses (NL63, OC43, 229E