A population-based study of hospital admission incidence rate and bacterial aetiology of acute lower respiratory infections in children aged less than five years in Bangladesh

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 179-188

  Baqui, Abdullah H ^a,b   Rahman, Mahbubur ^b   Zaman, K ^b   El Arifeen, Shams ^b   Chowdhury, Hafizur Rahman ^b   Begum, Nazma ^b   Bhattacharya, Gaurav ^a   Chotani, Rashid A ^a   Yunus, Mohammad ^b   Santosham, Mathuram ^a   Black, Robert E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Acute lower respiratory infections; Bangladesh; Child; Drug resistance; Haemophilus influenzae; Hospitalization; Infant; Microbial; Morbidity; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; BANGLADESH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE SEROTYPE B; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 35349005870     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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