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A Preliminary Study of Pneumonia Etiology Among Hospitalized Children in Kenya
Background. Pneumonia is the leading cause of childhood death in the developing world. Higher-quality etiological data are required to reduce this mortality burden. Methods. We conducted a case-control study of pneumonia etiology among children aged 1–59 months in rural Kenya. Case patients were hos...
Autores principales: | Hammitt, Laura L., Kazungu, Sidi, Morpeth, Susan C., Gibson, Dustin G., Mvera, Benedict, Brent, Andrew J., Mwarumba, Salim, Onyango, Clayton O., Bett, Anne, Akech, Donald O., Murdoch, David R., Nokes, D. James, Scott, J. Anthony G. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297554/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22403235 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cir1071 |
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