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comparing Mycoplasma pneumonia diagnosis in children with symptoms

Not Applicable
Conditions
Health Condition 1: J168- Pneumonia due to other specified infectious organisms
Registration Number
CTRI/2020/06/025635
Lead Sponsor
ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES RAIPUR
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot Yet Recruiting
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
0
Inclusion Criteria

1.Age between 5 to 15 years whose parents/guardian will give consent.

2.Presence of at least one major clinical criterion (cough, sputum production, fever) or two minor criteria (pleuritic chest pain, dyspnoea, altered mental state, signs of pulmonary consolidation on examination or total leucocyte count >12,000per cumm) and/or;

3.Presence of a new pulmonary infiltrate/shadow on chest X-ray suggestive of pneumonia at or within 24 hours of hospitalization.

Exclusion Criteria

1.Hospital-acquired pneumonia,

2.Patients with Terminal illness,

3.Patients on ventilator,

4.Patients or guardian not willing to give consent,

5.Pulmonary shadow due to a cause other than pneumonia,

6.Patient brought from another hospital or with a history of hospitalization within 7 days of discharge.

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
To know the prevalence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in community acquired pneumonia in 5-15 year age group. <br/ ><br>To compare the diagnostic efficacy of the three different diagnostic modalities. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: no specified time point
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
ï??To find out novel macrolide resistance in identified Mycoplasma pneumonia infection. <br/ ><br>ï??To study the association of extra pulmonary manifestations of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: no specified time point
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