Causes of severe pneumonia requiring hospital admission in children without HIV infection from Africa and Asia: the PERCH multi-country case-control study

The Lancet

Volumn 394, Issue 10200, 2019, Pages 757-779

  O'Brien, Katherine L ^a   Baggett, Henry C ^a   Brooks, W Abdullah ^a   Feikin, Daniel R ^a   Hammitt, Laura L ^a   Higdon, Melissa M ^a   Howie, Stephen R C ^a   Deloria Knoll, Maria ^a   Kotloff, Karen L ^a   Levine, Orin S ^a   Madhi, Shabir A ^a   Murdoch, David R ^a   Prosperi, Christine ^a   Scott, J Anthony G ^a   Shi, Qiyuan ^a   Thea, Donald M ^a   Wu, Zhenke ^a   Zeger, Scott L ^a   Adrian, Peter V ^a   Akarasewi, Pasakorn ^a   Anderson, Trevor P ^a   Antonio, Martin ^a   Awori, Juliet O ^a   Baillie, Vicky L ^a   Bunthi, Charatdao ^a   Chipeta, James ^a   Chisti, Mohammod Jobayer ^a   Crawley, Jane ^a   DeLuca, Andrea N ^a   Driscoll, Amanda J ^a   Ebruke, Bernard E ^a   Endtz, Hubert P ^a   Fancourt, Nicholas ^a   Fu, Wei ^a   Goswami, Doli ^a   Groome, Michelle J ^a   Haddix, Meredith ^a   Hossain, Lokman ^a   Jahan, Yasmin ^a   Kagucia, E Wangeci ^a   Kamau, Alice ^a   Karron, Ruth A ^a   Kazungu, Sidi ^a   Kourouma, Nana ^a   Kuwanda, Locadiah ^a   Kwenda, Geoffrey ^a   Li, Mengying ^a   Machuka, Eunice M ^a   Mackenzie, Grant ^a   Mahomed, Nasreen ^a   Maloney, Susan A ^a   McLellan, Jessica L ^a   Mitchell, Joanne L ^a   Moore, David P ^a   Morpeth, Susan C ^a   Mudau, Azwifarwi ^a   Mwananyanda, Lawrence ^a   Mwansa, James ^a   Silaba Ominde, Micah ^a   Onwuchekwa, Uma ^a   Park, Daniel E ^a   Rhodes, Julia ^a   Sawatwong, Pongpun ^a   Seidenberg, Phil ^a   Shamsul, Arifin ^a   Simões, Eric A F ^a   Sissoko, Seydou ^a   Wa Somwe, Somwe ^a   Sow, Samba O ^a   Sylla, Mamadou ^a   Tamboura, Boubou ^a   Tapia, Milagritos D ^a   Thamthitiwat, Somsak ^a   Toure, Aliou ^a   Watson, Nora L ^a   Zaman, Khalequ ^a   Zaman, Syed M A ^a   more..

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE FATALITY RATE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTRIC SUCTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 1; HUMAN PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3; INFANT; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LUNG ASPIRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NONTYPEABLE HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; PARAMYXOVIRINAE; PARECHOVIRUS; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOVIRUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; WHEEZING; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BANGLADESH; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIAL; GAMBIA; HOSPITALIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; MALI; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUTH AFRICA; THAILAND; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; ZAMBIA;

BANGLADESH; BAYES THEOREM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALE; MALI; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUTH AFRICA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THAILAND; ZAMBIA;

EID: 85069522084     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30721-4     Document Type: Article

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