2024-06-20 13:38:18
(ANSA) – FLORENCE, JUNE 20 – The variety of pneumonia attributable to the bacterium mycoplasma pneumoniae is rising. The surveillance system activated by the Immunology Laboratory of the Aou Meyer Irccs has detected “a surge” within the pathology: since February, amongst youngsters and adolescents arriving on the Florentine pediatric hospital, 50 infections have been discovered: 1 in January, 4 in February, 6 in March, ninth in April, twelfth in Might and nineteenth thus far in June. Within the final 4 years, the pediatrician explains, “the circumstances had been very uncommon: to seek out a lot of circumstances, it’s mandatory to return to 2019. In the intervening time the development remains to be rising. Among the many sufferers affected by an infection, roughly 50% require hospitalization.”
Mycoplasma, it’s defined, can strike at any age, however is extra evident in youngsters and adolescents. It principally causes pneumonia which manifests itself with fever and protracted dry cough.
It’s usually a much less critical pneumonia than that attributable to germs identified to be extra invasive resembling pneumococcus. However generally it will probably trigger critical problems resembling hemolytic anemia, or irritation of the center and mind. An accurate and fast prognosis is essential as a result of the illness have to be handled with particular antibiotics. A prognosis, it’s defined, that “could be finished rapidly with particular molecular strategies on a throat swab: that is what Meyer does for his younger sufferers”.
For a while, it must also be remembered, Meyer has had an energetic surveillance system that rigorously searches for the reason for all circulating infectious illnesses, even the rarest ones. The outcomes are used instantly to take advantage of right scientific decisions, aimed on the particular person affected person, and public well being. “Promptly figuring out circumstances is prime – explains Chiara Azzari, head of the Immunology Laboratory – lets say, for instance, how essential it’s to know {that a} little one has whooping cough: it isn’t solely to present the kid the proper antibiotic remedy, however it’s also to advise the mother and father to maintain the kid away from a new child sister. We all know nicely that whooping cough could be deadly in youngsters beneath one 12 months of age.” To be really efficient, it’s also underlined, surveillance should even be able to photographing the state of affairs in actual time so as to know daily which germs are “going round” in a given space. (HANDLE).
2024-06-20 13:38:18