Severe lower respiratory tract infection in early infancy and pneumonia hospitalizations among children, Kenya

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 223-229

  Munywoki, Patrick Kiio ^a   Ohuma, Eric O ^a,b   Ngama, Mwanajuma ^a   Bauni, Evasius ^a   Scott, J Anthony G ^a,b   James Nokes, D ^a,c  

^a Geographic Medicine Research Coast   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; KENYA; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; WHEEZING;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84930484987     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1902.120940     Document Type: Article

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