Aetiology of lower respiratory tract infection in adults in primary care: a prospective study in 11 European countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the role of bacteria (including bacterial resistance), viruses (including those recently described) and mixed bacterial-viral infections in adults presenting to primary care with lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI).

Methods

In all, 3104 adults with LRTI were enrolled, of whom 141 (4.5%) had community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), and 2985 matched controls in a prospective study in 16 primary care networks in Europe, and followed patients up at 28-35 days. We detected Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae and assessed susceptibility, atypical bacteria and viruses.

Results

A potential pathogen was detected in 1844 (59%) (in 350 (11%) bacterial pathogens only, in 1190 (38%) viral pathogens only, and in 304 (10%) both bacterial and vi

SUBMITTER: Ieven M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7129248 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature