Viral etiology of pneumonia among severely malnourished under-five children in an urban hospital, Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Bangladesh, pneumonia has a higher mortality among malnourished children aged <5 years. Evaluating pneumonia etiology among malnourished children may help improve empiric treatment guidelines.

Methods

During April 2015-December 2017, we conducted a case-control study among severe acute malnourished (SAM) children aged <5 years admitted to the Dhaka hospital of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). We enrolled hospital admitted SAM children with clinical or radiological pneumonia as cases (during April 2015 to March 2017) and hospital admitted SAM children without any respiratory symptom in the past 10 days before admission as controls (during February 2016 to December 2017). We tested nasopharyngeal wash from both case and

SUBMITTER: Chowdhury F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6999894 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature