Association of respiratory viruses with outcomes of severe childhood pneumonia in Botswana.

The highest incidence of childhood acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRI) is in low- and middle-income countries. Few studies examined whether detection of respiratory viruses predicts ALRI outcomes in these settings.We conducted prospective cohort and case-control studies of children 1-23 m...

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Main Authors: Matthew S Kelly, Marek Smieja, Kathy Luinstra, Kathleen E Wirth, David M Goldfarb, Andrew P Steenhoff, Tonya Arscott-Mills, Coleen K Cunningham, Sefelani Boiditswe, Warona Sethomo, Samir S Shah, Rodney Finalle, Kristen A Feemster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4431806?pdf=render