Title
Respiratory pathogens in community acquired pneumonia
Authors
Babita Kumari* & Vijay Kumar
Affiliation
Department of Microbiology, Patna Medical College, Patna, Bihar, India; *Corresponding author
Babita Kumari - E - mail: drbabita7@gmail.com
Vijay Kumar - E - mail: drkvijay10@yahoo.com
Article Type
Research Article
Date
Received March 1, 2025; Revised March 31, 2025; Accepted March 31, 2025, Published March 31, 2025
Abstract
Respiratory pathogens in community-acquired pneumonia are of interest. Hence, adults over 20 years of age who arrived at participating institutions' emergency rooms or outpatient clinics with pneumonia as clinical diagnosis were qualified for participation and evaluated for consideration in the study. Analysis shows that K. pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa and S. pneumoniae was the most common bacterial pathogens associated with community-acquired pneumonia. Most common viral pathogens associated with community-acquired pneumonia are influenza A and rhinovirus A.
Keywords
Respiratory pathogens, microbial detection, community acquired pneumonia (CAP)
Citation
Kumari & Kumar, Bioinformation 21(3): 314-318 (2025)
Edited by
Vini Mehta
ISSN
0973-2063
Publisher
License
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
