Epidemiology and risk factors for pneumonia severity and mortality in Bangladeshi children <5 years of age before 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction

• Main Authors: Shampa Saha (Author), Md Hasan (Author), Lindsay Kim (Author), Jennifer L. Farrar (Author), Belal Hossain (Author), Maksuda Islam (Author), ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed (Author), M. Ruhul Amin (Author), Mohammed Hanif (Author), Manzoor Hussain (Author), Shams El-Arifeen (Author), Cynthia G. Whitney (Author), Samir K. Saha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of morbidity and mortality in young children in Bangladesh. We present the epidemiology of pneumonia in Bangladeshi children <5 years before 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction and investigate factors associated with...