Improvements in nutritional management as a determinant of reduced mortality from community-acquired lower respiratory tract infection in hospitalized children from rural Central Africa

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 739-747

  Bahwere, Paluku ^a,c   De Mol, Patrick ^d   Donnen, Philippe ^c   Dramaix Wilmet, Michèle ^c   Butzler, Jean Paul ^b   Hennart, Philippe ^c   Levy, Jack ^b  

^a Ctr de Rech/Sci Naturelles (CRSN)   (Congo)

^b SAINT PIERRE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Central Africa; Enterobacteriaceae; Management; Mortality; Nutritional; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SERUM ALBUMIN;

AFRICA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET THERAPY; EDEMA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFANT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONGO; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEHYDRATION; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 4043163349     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000135663.17018.51     Document Type: Review

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