Is Higher Viral Load in the Upper Respiratory Tract Associated With Severe Pneumonia? Findings From the PERCH Study

BACKGROUND. The etiologic inference of identifying a pathogen in the upper respiratory tract (URT) of children with pneumonia is unclear. To determine if viral load could provide evidence of causality of pneumonia, we compared viral load in the URT of children with World Health Organization–defined...

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Autores principales: Feikin, Daniel R., Fu, Wei, Park, Daniel E., Shi, Qiyuan, Higdon, Melissa M., Baggett, Henry C., Brooks, W. Abdullah, Deloria Knoll, Maria, Hammitt, Laura L., Howie, Stephen R. C., Kotloff, Karen L., Levine, Orin S., Madhi, Shabir A., Scott, J. Anthony G., Thea, Donald M., Adrian, Peter V., Antonio, Martin, Awori, Juliet O., Baillie, Vicky L., DeLuca, Andrea N., Driscoll, Amanda J., Ebruke, Bernard E., Goswami, Doli, Karron, Ruth A., Li, Mengying, Morpeth, Susan C., Mwaba, John, Mwansa, James, Prosperi, Christine, Sawatwong, Pongpun, Sow, Samba O., Tapia, Milagritos D., Whistler, Toni, Zaman, Khalequ, Zeger, Scott L., O’ Brien, Katherine L., Murdoch, David R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28575373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix148

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