Incidence of respiratory virus-associated pneumonia in urban poor young children of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2009-2011.

Incidence of respiratory virus-associated pneumonia in urban poor young children of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2009-2011.

Pneumonia is the leading cause of childhood death in Bangladesh. We conducted a longitudinal study to estimate the incidence of virus-associated pneumonia in children aged <2 years in a low-income urban community in Dhaka, Bangladesh.We followed a cohort of children for two years. We collected na...

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Main Authors: Nusrat Homaira, Stephen P Luby, William A Petri, Raija Vainionpaa, Mustafizur Rahman, Kamal Hossain, Cynthia B Snider, Mahmudur Rahman, A S M Alamgir, Farzina Zesmin, Masud Alam, Emily S Gurley, Rashid Uz Zaman, Tasnim Azim, Dean D Erdman, Alicia M Fry, Joseph Bresee, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Rashidul Haque, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3285198?pdf=render

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