Congenital pneumonia: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatments
Causes One of the most important diseases in infant infections is pneumonia. In developed countries, mortality and morbidity due to neonatal pneumonia is high. In developed countries, incidence is 1% in full term infants, ill infant in normal weight, and incidence in 10% in low birth weight infants. Neonatal pneumonia can be divided into early onset and late onset, and in the case of congenital pneumonia, early onset. Early-onset pneumonia acquires pathogens from the mother within three days of birth through the following three pathways: If the infected amniotic fluid is aspirated from the uterus, the pathogen is transmitted through the placenta, or the infant is aspirated during vaginal organism during or immediately after birth. Congenital pneumonia can be a bacterial or a virus. Bacterial pneumonia causes inflammation of pleura or infiltration or destruction of bronchopulmonary tissue. Viral pneumonia is mainly caused by interstitial pneumonia. The main cause is bacteria, amo...