Pneumonia Pneumococcal
It remains the most common in children 6 months – 4 years, occupying a significant place among the pneumonia and the older children. Of the 83 serotypes of pneumococcus 20-25 rise to more than 95% of all cases of pneumonia. High level of maternal immunity to pneumococcus children lose the end of the first year of life, increase in antibody titers (carriage, infection) is accelerated after 3 years. Several serotypes (3, 5, 9) is characterized by high virulence, they, like others, new to the patient serotypes often have complicated forms. According crops lung punctate, pneumococcus is often accompanied by Haemophilus influenzae in