%0 Journal Article
%T Etiological and Radiological Profile of Acute Lower Respiratory Infections during the Pre-COVID Period in the Paediatric Ward of the Teaching Hospital of Mali and in the Community Health Centre of Yirimadio in Bamako
%A Bourama Kan¨¦
%A Mariam Maiga
%A Oumou Kon¨¦
%A Korotoumou W¨¦l¨¦ Diallo
%A Aboubacar Sangar¨¦
%A Mody Abdoulaye Camara
%A Mariam Doumbia
%A Abdoul Karim Sangar¨¦
%A Br¨¦hima Traor¨¦
%A Lassine G. Timbin¨¦
%A Ibrahima Ciss¨¦
%A Ahmadou I. Dram¨¦
%A Br¨¦hima Kouriba
%J Open Journal of Pediatrics
%P 262-275
%@ 2160-8776
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojped.2023.132032
%X Introduction: Every year, nearly 4 million people pass away from acute respiratory infections.
98% of such deaths are due to lower respiratory tract infections. Even though studies
have been carried on lower respiratory infections x-ray aspects in Mali, very few
studies have been done to reveal bacteriological and virological evidence of this
disease. Materials and methods: It is about a descriptive prospective study
carried out from January to December 2018 having involved patients of all ages,
coming for medical consultation at the Yirimadio Community-based health center as
well as children from 6 months to 15 years old coming at the pediatric department of UHC Hôpital du Mali for
a lower respiratory infection. They had all undergone chest X-ray and a PCR. The
purpose: of this work is to study etiological and x-ray aspects of acute lower respiratory infections at the Yirimadio
Community-based Health Center and at the UHC pediatric department of Hôpital du
Mali. Findings: From January to December 2018, we recorded a frequency of 1.19%.
The age group 0 - 5 years was the most represented
(64.5%) with a sex ratio of 0.97 for women. Cough was the most common clinical sign
(98.7%) followed by fever (58.9%). Standard frontal chest X-ray was pathological
in 70% of our patients. It was bronchitis in 75.4% of cases, pneumonia (13.5%),
and bronchopneumonia (12.3%). PCR positive was
in 83.9% of patients. It revealed a co-infection