Treatment Failure and Mortality amongst Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition Presenting with Cough or Respiratory Difficulty and Radiological Pneumonia.

Appropriate intervention is critical in reducing deaths among under-five, severe acutely malnourished (SAM) children with danger signs of severe pneumonia; however, there is paucity of data on outcome of World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended interventions of SAM children with severe pneumonia....

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Main Authors: Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Pradip Kumar Bardhan, Abu S G Faruque, Abu S M S B Shahid, K M Shahunja, Sumon Kumar Das, Md Iqbal Hossain, Tahmeed Ahmed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4599910?pdf=render