Neonatal severe bacterial infection impairment estimates in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America for 2010

Pediatric Research

Volumn 74, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2013, Pages 73-85

  Seale, Anna C ^a,b   Blencowe, Hannah ^c   Zaidi, Anita ^d   Ganatra, Hammad ^d   Syed, Sana ^d   Engmann, Cyril ^e   Newton, Charles R ^b,f   Vergnano, Stefania ^g   Stoll, Barbara J ^h   Cousens, Simon N ^c   Lawn, Joy E ^c,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Centre   (Kenya)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MENINGITIS; META ANALYSIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NEWBORN TETANUS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; STILLBIRTH; SURVIVOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ASIA; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LATIN AMERICA; MENINGITIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PNEUMONIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS;

EID: 84890956240     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2013.207     Document Type: Article

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