Prevalence of pneumonia and risk factors of pneumonia mortality among children under five years.
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Global estimate of the incidence of clinical pneumonia among children under five years of age.
OBJECTIVE Clinical pneumonia (defined as respiratory infections associated with clinical signs of pneumonia, principally pneumonia and bronchiolitis) in children under five years of age is still the leading cause of childhood mortality in the world. In this paper we aim to estimate the worldwide incidence of clinical pneumonia in young children. METHODS Our estimate for the developing world i...
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عنوان ژورنال: African Journal of Current Medical Research
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2579-0242
DOI: 10.31191/afrijcmr.v2i2.28