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感染症と幼児期における突然の予期せぬ死亡:体系的な遡及的症例レビュー
M A Weber1, N J Klein, J C Hartley
1Department of Paediatric Pathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK.
Lancet (London, England)
|June 3, 2008
まとめ
幼児期の突然の予期せぬ死 (SUDI) は,多くの場合,説明がつかないままです. しかし,Staphylococcus aureusやEscherichia coliのような特定のバクテリアは,最初は感染が目立たない場合でも,SUDIによる死亡に関連している可能性があります.
科学分野:
- 小児病理学の病理学について
- 感染症疫学 感染症疫学
- 法医学は,法医医学である.
背景:
- 幼児期における突然の予期せぬ死亡 (SUDI) の大部分の病因は,徹底した解剖にもかかわらず不明である.
- この研究では,SUDI症例における感染の潜在的な役割を調査しました.
研究 の 目的:
- バクテリア感染がSUDIの原因であるかどうかを判断する.
- 原因不明の乳児死亡に関連する特定の病原体を特定する.
主な方法:
- 1996年から2005年にかけての546人の乳児 (7~365日) の解剖を遡及的に検討したケースレビュー.
- SUDI症例の分類:説明がつかない,細菌感染によって説明される,または非感染的な原因.
- 微生物単離物の非病原体,グループ1またはグループ2の病原体として分類.
主要な成果:
- グループ2の病原体は,原因不明のSUDI症例 (19%) と細菌感染症 (24%) で,非感染症原因 (11%) と比較して,有意に多く見られた.
- Staphylococcus aureusとEscherichia coliは,原因不明のSUDI症例では,非感染症例よりも頻繁に発見されました.
- 適格なSUDI症例の93%で細菌学的サンプリングが行われ,多数の単離物が得られた.
結論:
- SUDI症例からの多くの死後の培養は生物を生成しますが,ほとんどの場合,偶然の発見です.
- 未解明のSUDIでは,グループ2の病原体,特にS. aureusとE. coliの検出率が高いことが,この状態との潜在的な関連性を示唆しています.
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