Incidence and aetiology of Danish children with community-acquired pneumonia treated with chest tube drainage in 2022–2023 versus the previous three decades

In conclusion, we found a fivefold increase in children with complicated community-acquired pneumonia treated with CTD in 2022-2023 versus the previous three decades, primarily due to GAS.For the individual child, GAS pneumonia treated with CTD did not seem to be more severe during 2022-2023.