Background Severe malnutrition is a risk factor for pneumonia due to a wide range of
pathogens but aetiological data are limited and the role of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is …

Background Blood cultures are obtained routinely for infants and young children for the
evaluation for serious bacterial infection. Isolation of organisms that represent possible …

Data are limited on the prevalence and outcome of anemia and its risk on mortality among
children under five years of age hospitalized for pneumonia/severe pneumonia. Thus, we …

Background Risks of death are high when children with pneumonia also have severe acute
malnutrition (SAM) as a co-morbidity. However, there is limited published information on risk …

Aim: To evaluate the clinical and laboratory predictors of death in hospitalized under‐five
children with diarrhoea. Methods: This is a prospective cohort study carried out in the …

We described clinical and laboratory features of infants having radiologic pneumonia with
(cases) and without severe malnutrition (controls). Case fatality rate was greater in cases …

Hypocalcaemia is common in severely-malnourished children and is often associated with
fatal outcome. There is very limited information on the clinical predicting factors of …

Despite the reduction of death from pneumonia over recent years, pneumonia has still been
the leading infectious cause of death in under-five children for the last several decades …

Aim To evaluate the clinical characteristics and outcome in children hospitalised with
diarrhoea, comparing those developed septic shock with those who did not. Methods We …

Background Clinical features of metabolic acidosis and pneumonia frequently overlap in
young diarrheal children, resulting in differentiation from each other very difficult. However …