Introduction to the Epidemiologic Considerations, Analytic Methods, and Foundational Results From the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health Study
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Katherine L. O’Brien, Henry C. Baggett, W. Abdullah Brooks, Daniel R. Feikin, Laura L. Hammitt, Stephen R. C. Howie, Maria Deloria Knoll, Karen L. Kotloff, Orin S. Levine, Shabir A. Madhi, David R. Murdoch, J. Anthony G. Scott, Donald M. Thea, and Scott L. Zeger Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Global Disease Detection Center, Thailand Ministry of Public Health–US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration, Nonthaburi; Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka and Matlab; Division of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi; Medical Research Council Unit, Basse, The Gambia; Department of Paediatrics, University of Auckland, and; Centre for International Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; Division of Infectious Disease and Tropical Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Vaccine Development, Institute of Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington; Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, and Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Department of Pathology, University of Otago, Christchurch, and Microbiology Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Massachusetts; Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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