Introduction to the Epidemiologic Considerations, Analytic Methods, and Foundational Results From the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health Study

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; Scott L Zeger

doi:10.1093/cid/cix142

Introduction to the Epidemiologic Considerations, Analytic Methods, and Foundational Results From the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health Study

Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Jun 15;64(suppl_3):S179-S184. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix142.

Authors

Katherine L O'Brien¹, Henry C Baggett^{2

3}, W Abdullah Brooks^{1

4}, Daniel R Feikin^{1

5}, Laura L Hammitt^{1

6}, Stephen R C Howie^{7

8

9}, Maria Deloria Knoll¹, Karen L Kotloff¹⁰, Orin S Levine^{1

11}, Shabir A Madhi^{12

13}, David R Murdoch^{14

15}, J Anthony G Scott^{7

16}, Donald M Thea¹⁷, Scott L Zeger¹⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Global Disease Detection Center, Thailand Ministry of Public Health-US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration, Nonthaburi.
³ Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁴ International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka and Matlab.
⁵ Division of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁶ Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi.
⁷ Medical Research Council Unit, Basse, The Gambia.
⁸ Department of Paediatrics, University of Auckland, and.
⁹ Centre for International Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
¹⁰ 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.
¹¹ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington.
¹² Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, and.
¹³ Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
¹⁴ Department of Pathology, University of Otago, Christchurch, and.
¹⁵ Microbiology Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand.
¹⁶ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.
¹⁷ Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Massachusetts.
¹⁸ Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

No abstract available

Keywords: PERCH.; case-control analysis; children; etiology; pneumonia.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Child Health*
Epidemiologic Methods
Global Health*
Humans
Pneumonia / epidemiology*
Pneumonia / etiology*
Pneumonia / mortality
Survival Analysis

Publication types

MeSH terms

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