Aetiological agents of adult community-acquired pneumonia in Japan : systematic review and meta-analysis of published data

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OBJECTIVE: Epidemiological information is essential in providing appropriate empiric antimicrobial therapy for pneumonia. This study aimed to clarify the epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) by conducting a systematic review of published studies in Japan.

DESIGN: Systematic review.

DATA SOURCE: PubMed and Ichushi web database (January 1970 to October 2022).

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Clinical studies describing pathogenic micro-organisms in CAP written in English or Japanese, excluding studies on pneumonia other than adult CAP, investigations limited to specific pathogens and case reports.

DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS: Patient setting (inpatient vs outpatient), number of patients, concordance with the CAP guidelines, diagnostic criteria and methods for diagnosing pneumonia pathogens as well as the numbers of each isolate. A meta-analysis of various situations was performed to measure the frequency of each aetiological agent.

RESULTS: Fifty-six studies were included and 17 095 cases of CAP were identified. Pathogens were undetectable in 44.1% (95% CI 39.7% to 48.5%). Streptococcus pneumoniae was the most common cause of CAP requiring hospitalisation or outpatient care (20.0% (95% CI 17.2% to 22.8%)), followed by Haemophilus influenzae (10.8% (95% CI 7.3% to 14.3%)) and Mycoplasma pneumoniae (7.5% (95% CI 4.6% to 10.4%)). However, when limited to CAP requiring hospitalisation, Staphylococcus aureus was the third most common at 4.9% (95% CI 3.9% to 5.8%). Pseudomonas aeruginosa was more frequent in hospitalised cases, while atypical pathogens were less common. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus accounted for 40.7% (95% CI 29.0% to 52.4%) of S. aureus cases. In studies that used PCR testing for pan-respiratory viral pathogens, human enterovirus/human rhinovirus (9.4% (95% CI 0% to 20.5%)) and several other respiratory pathogenic viruses were detected. The epidemiology varied depending on the methodology and situation.

CONCLUSION: The epidemiology of CAP varies depending on the situation, such as in the hospital versus outpatient setting. Viruses are more frequently detected by exhaustive genetic searches, resulting in a significant variation in epidemiology.

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

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BMJ open respiratory research - 10(2023), 1 vom: 26. Sept.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fujikura, Yuji [VerfasserIn]
Somekawa, Kohei [VerfasserIn]
Manabe, Toshie [VerfasserIn]
Horita, Nobuyuki [VerfasserIn]
Takahashi, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Higa, Futoshi [VerfasserIn]
Yatera, Kazuhiro [VerfasserIn]
Miyashita, Naoyuki [VerfasserIn]
Imamura, Yoshifumi [VerfasserIn]
Iwanaga, Naoki [VerfasserIn]
Mukae, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Kawana, Akihiko [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bacterial infection
Journal Article
Pneumonia
Respiratory infection
Viral infection

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Date Revised 03.10.2023

published: Print

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doi:

10.1136/bmjresp-2023-001800

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NLM362483248