Deaths due to respiratory tract infections in africa: A review of autopsy studies

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 229-237

  Bates, Matthew ^a,b,c   Mudenda, Victor ^b,c   Mwaba, Peter ^a,d   Zumla, Alimuddin ^a,b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c University Teaching Hospital   (Zambia)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Autopsy; HIV; Lung disease; Pneumonia; Postmortem; Respiratory tract infections; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DENGUE; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MIXED INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW;

ADULT; AFRICA; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84878105566     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: 15316971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCP.0b013e32835f4fe4     Document Type: Review

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