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Datos clínicos y demográficos de pacientes con infección respiratoria aguda. <br><b>Atypical bacterial pathogens, viruses and coinfections in the molecular etiological profile of Community-Acquired Pneumonia among infants and children admitted in a national hospital of Lima Peru.</b><b>Objetive: </b>Evaluated the incidence and clinical characteristic of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) due to respiratory viruses and atypical pathogens in children adding PCR to routine conventional laboratory tests. <b>Results:</b> Of 146 patients clinically diagnosed with CAP were performed nasopharyngeal swabs available and were included in this study. Atypical pathogens were detected in 39.73% (58/146); viral etiology in 35.62% (52/146), coinfections in 18.49% (27/146) and undetermined etiology in 42.47% (62/146). The most common etiological agent were Mycoplasma (n=47), followed by Chlamydia pneumoniae (n=11). The most frequent respiratory viruses detected were: respiratory syncytial virus A (n= 35), influenza virus C (n= 21) and parainfluenza virus (n= 10). Viral-bacterial and bacterium-bacterium coinfections were found in 27 cases.