Staphylococcal lung destruction in children. III All-Union Symposium of Pediatric Surgeons (26/XI 1968, Dushanbe)

S. Ya. Doletsky et al. (Moscow) indicate that despite the large number of works devoted to staphylococcal pneumonia and its complications, the issues of diagnosis and indications for a particular treatment method are still far from being resolved. Due to the wide spread of this microbe, its detection in the culture of mucus taken from the throat and nose of a sick child cannot serve as confirmation of the staphylococcal nature of the disease. Evidence can only be considered seeding it from the lesion or from the blood. At the same time, the sowing of punctate from the lesion in the lung is a belated method and is justified only with empyema to determine the strain of the pathogen and its resistance to antibiotics.