Burden of respiratory tract infections at post mortem in Zambian children

BMC Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Bates, Matthew ^a,g   Shibemba, Aaron ^a   Mudenda, Victor ^a   Chimoga, Charles ^a   Tembo, John ^a,b   Kabwe, Mwila ^a   Chilufya, Moses ^a   Hoelscher, Michael ^c   Maeurer, Markus ^d   Sinyangwe, Sylvester ^a   Mwaba, Peter ^a,e   Kapata, Nathan ^a,f   Zumla, Alimuddin ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

^f Ministry of Community Development   (Zambia)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Autopsy; Children; Cytomegalovirus; Pneumocystis Jirovecii pneumonia; Pneumonia; Post mortem; Tuberculosis; Zambia

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS PNEUMONIA; DEHYDRATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; KWASHIORKOR; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALARIA; MALE; MARASMUS; MENINGITIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLEURISY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEPSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; XPERT MTB/RIF ASSAY; ZAMBIA; ZAMBIAN; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

AUTOPSY; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84977138722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0645-z     Document Type: Article

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