STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN

Abstract

The author presents staphylococcus infections in children with first accent about staphylococcal pneumonia (epidemiology, – pathogenicity and pathology; clinical manifestations; laboratory and roentgenographic findings; diagnosis and differential diagnosis; complications; prognosis and treatment) after which there are discussed other diseases due to staphylococcus: scalded-skinstaphylokoken (SSSS)(Ritter disease, Lyell syndrome, staphylococcal scarlet fever, bullous impetigo), staphylococcal osteomyelitis, staphylococcal enterocolitis, staphylococcal food poisoning, staphylococcal endocarditis, staphylococcal tracheitis, toxic shock syndrome (TSS).

Keywords

• staphylococcus infections
• staphylococcal pneumonia
• other diseases due to staphylococcus
• children