Community acquired paediatric pneumonia; experience from a pneumococcal vaccine- naive population

Abstract Background Childhood pneumonia continues to be a disease that causes severe morbidity and mortality among children mainly in South-East Asia and Africa though it is not so in the developed world. Pneumonia accounts for 16% of all deaths of children under 5 years old in the world, killing ne...

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Main Authors: Sanath Thushara Kudagammana, Ruchira Ruwanthika Karunaratne, Thilini Surenika Munasinghe, Haputhanthirige Donna Wasana Samankumari Kudagammana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-08-01
Series:Pneumonia
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41479-020-00071-6