Should controls with respiratory symptoms be excluded from case-control studies of pneumonia etiology? Reflections from the PERCH study

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue , 2017, Pages S205-S212

  Higdon, Melissa M ^a   Hammitt, Laura L ^a,b   Knoll, Maria Deloria ^a   Baggett, Henry C ^c,d   Brooks, W Abdullah ^a,e   Howie, Stephen R C ^f,g,h   Kotloff, Karen L ⁱ   Levine, Orin S ^a,j   Madhi, Shabir A ^k   Murdoch, David R ^l,m   Scott, J Anthony G ^b,f   Thea, Donald M ⁿ   Driscoll, Amanda J ^a   Karron, Ruth A ^a   Park, Daniel E ^a,o   Prosperi, Christine ^a   Zeger, Scott L ^a   O'Brien, Katherine L ^a   Feikin, Daniel R ^a,p   DeLuca, Andrea N ^a   Fu, Wei ^a   Kagucia, E Wangeci ^a   Li, Mengying ^a   Wu, Zhenke ^a   Watson, Nora L ^q   Crawley, Jane ^r   Endtz, Hubert P ^e   Zaman, Khalequ ^e   Goswami, Doli ^e   Hossain, Lokman ^e   Jahan, Yasmin ^e   Ashraf, Hasan ^e   Ebruke, Bernard E ^f   Antonio, Martin ^f   McLellan, Jessica ^f   Machuka, Eunice ^f   Shamsul, Arifin ^f   Zaman, Syed M A ^f   Mackenzie, Grant ^f   Awori, Juliet O ^b   Morpeth, Susan C ^b   Kamau, Alice ^b   Kazungu, Sidi ^b   Tapia, Milagritos D ^i,s   Sow, Samba O ^i,s   Sylla, Mamadou ^i,s   Tamboura, Boubou ^i,s   Onwuchekwa, Uma ^i,s   Kourouma, Nana ^i,s   Toure, Aliou ^i,s   Moore, David P ^k   Adrian, Peter V ^k   Baillie, Vicky L ^k   Kuwanda, Locadiah ^k   Mudau, Azwifarwi ^k   Groome, Michelle J ^k   Thamthitiwat, Somsak ^c   Maloney, Susan A ^c   Bunthi, Charatdao ^c   Rhodes, Julia ^c   Sawatwong, Pongpun ^c   Akarasewi, Pasakorn ^c   Mwananyanda, Lawrence ^n,t   Chipeta, James ^n,t   Seidenberg, Phil ^n,t   Mwansa, James ^n,t   Somwe, Somwe Wa ^n,t   Kwenda, Geoffrey ^n,t   more..

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c Centers for Disease Control CDC Thailand Field Station   (Thailand)

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

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

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

^g UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^m CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

ⁿ BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^o GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^q EMMES CORPORATION   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^s Centre Pour le Développement des Vaccins CVD Mali   (Mali)

^t UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

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Author keywords

Control selection; PERCH; Pneumonia etiology; Respiratory symptoms; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROL GROUP; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHINOVIRUS; SELECTION BIAS; THAILAND; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 85038112862     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix076     Document Type: Article

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