Mortality associated with seasonal and pandemic influenza and respiratory syncytial virus among children <5 years of age in a high HIV prevalence setting - South Africa, 1998-2009

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1241-1249

  Tempia, Stefano ^a,b   Walaza, Sibongile ^a   Viboud, Cecile ^c   Cohen, Adam L ^a,b   Madhi, Shabir A ^a,d,e   Venter, Marietjie ^a,f   Mcanerney, Johanna M ^a   Cohen, Cheryl ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

HIV; influenza; mortality; respiratory syncytial virus; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

AGE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SOUTH AFRICA; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; INFANT; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PANDEMIC; PNEUMONIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASON;

CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84898859782     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu095     Document Type: Article

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