The impact of childhood malnutrition on mortality from pneumonia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

A Kirolos, RM Blacow, A Parajuli, NJ Welton… - BMJ Global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Childhood malnutrition is widespread in low-income and middle-income
countries (LMICs) and increases the frequency and severity of infections such as …

[HTML][HTML] Providing oxygen to children in hospitals: a realist review

H Graham, S Tosif, A Gray, S Qazi… - Bulletin of the World …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To identify and describe interventions to improve oxygen therapy in hospitals in
low-resource settings, and to determine the factors that contribute to success and failure in …

Development of HIV drug resistance and therapeutic failure in children and adolescents in rural Tanzania: an emerging public health concern

L Muri, A Gamell, AJ Ntamatungiro, TR Glass… - Aids, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To investigate the prevalence and determinants of virologic failure and acquired
drug resistance-associated mutations (DRMs) in HIV-infected children and adolescents in …

Incidence and risk factors for severe pneumonia in children hospitalized with pneumonia in Ujjain, India

SK Kasundriya, M Dhaneria, A Mathur… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Childhood pneumonia is a major public health problem. The aim of this prospective hospital-
based study is to determine the incidence and risk factors for community-acquired severe …

Predicting hospitalised paediatric pneumonia mortality risk: an external validation of RISC and mRISC, and local tool development (RISC-Malawi) from Malawi

S Hooli, T Colbourn, N Lufesi, A Costello, B Nambiar… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of under-5 mortality in sub-Saharan
Africa. Clinical prediction tools may aide case classification, triage, and allocation of hospital …

Bubble continuous positive airway pressure for children with high-risk conditions and severe pneumonia in Malawi: an open label, randomised, controlled trial

ED McCollum, T Mvalo, M Eckerle, AG Smith… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Pneumonia is the leading cause of death among children globally. Most
pneumonia deaths in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) occur among …

Impact of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on clinical and hypoxemic childhood pneumonia over three years in central Malawi: an observational study

ED McCollum, B Nambiar, R Deula, B Zadutsa… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background The pneumococcal conjugate vaccine's (PCV) impact on childhood pneumonia
during programmatic conditions in Africa is poorly understood. Following PCV13 …

Lower respiratory tract infections in children in a well-vaccinated South African birth cohort: spectrum of disease and risk factors

DM Le Roux, MP Nicol, L Myer, A Vanker… - Clinical Infectious …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Childhood lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) cause substantial morbidity
and under-5 child mortality. The epidemiology of LRTI is changing in low-and middle …

Prevalence of and factors associated with malaria in children under five years of age in Malawi, using malaria indicator survey data

RT Gaston, S Ramroop - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Background Malaria remains a public health problem in developing countries and Malawi is
no different. Although there has been an improvement in reducing malaria in Malawi, it …

Aetiology and risks factors associated with the fatal outcomes of childhood pneumonia among hospitalised children in the Philippines from 2008 to 2016: a case series …

BPP Dembele, T Kamigaki, C Dapat, R Tamaki… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective Pneumonia remains the leading cause of hospitalisations and deaths among
children aged< 5 years. Diverse respiratory pathogens cause acute respiratory infections …