[PDF] Top 20 Mortality from acute respiratory infections in children under 5 years of age: Global estimates

... In an attempt to estimate the global magnitude of mortality from acute respiratory infections in children under 5, an analysis was undertaken of data on reported deaths, [r] ... See full document

... (8/64) of our samples were positive for HMPV: five patients had single infections (mean age ...2.2 years old, range six months-five years old) and three patients presented mixed ... See full document

... involved in acute respiratory infections (ARI), which cause high morbidity and mortality in ...grouped in six species (A-F), which are associated with a wide range ... See full document

... (CPHO) in the city of Salvador, northeast Brazil, from January to December ...1998. Children under five years of age and with disease of less than seven days ... See full document

... Ministry of Health of Peru, with the support of the Pan Amer- ican Health Organization (PAHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and other international or- ganizations, established the ... See full document

... ARI in young children is responsible for an estimated ...percent of the global ARI mortality. About 90 percent of the ARI deaths are due to pneumonia which is usually bacterial ... See full document

... including children at 24 months of age, a high cumulative incidence of ARTI was observed, supporting the relevance of morbidity from acute respiratory diseases ... See full document

... doses of ingested pathogens early in life may result in subclinical infections and development of ...excretion of these pathogens in the child’s ...done in ... See full document

... one of the commonest causes of morbidity and mortality in children in developing ...Aim of the study was to evaluate children with severe LRTI (pneumonia) correlate ... See full document

... centers from 2004 to 2009 with convenient surveillance specimens collected from hospitalized children ≤ 5 years presenting acute ...samples from patients with acute ... See full document

... impact of vac- cination against Haemophilus influenzae type b (HIB) in Brazil on the morbidity, mortality, and case fatality of HIB meningitis, using the Ministry of Health database and ... See full document

... Профілактика гострих респіраторних захворювань (ГРЗ) є однією з актуальних і соціально значимих про- блем медицини внаслідок високого ризику розвитку серйозних ускладнень, істотної частки в структурі ди- тячої ... See full document

... J45.9) in children of both sexes aged between 0 to 9 years old and residents in Ribeirão ...located in Southeastern of Brazil, geographical coordinates 21º 10’ S and 47º ... See full document

... results in a fail- ure to treat patients ...70% of lower ARI are caused by viruses, “blind treatment” with antibiotics has become the standard of care in most cases of pneumonia and ... See full document

... A number of countries in the Americas are already studying the problem and in 1980 three consecutive meetings organized by PAHO were held in Rio de Janeiro on this subje[r] ... See full document

... The high incidence of pneumonia, added to the prevalence of risk factors in children (malnutrition, overcrowding, low level of care provided to children in the home),[r] ... See full document

... O Vírus Respiratório Sincicial Humano (hRSV) é o patógeno mais comumente associado à doença do trato respiratório inferior em lactentes e crianças. Altas taxas de admissão hospitalar, freqüência de casos e severidade da ... See full document

... The Program has produced eight modules for organiza- tional courses, six modules on supervi- sory skills, one module for training of primary health care and hosp[r] ... See full document

... diseases in the period: in 1990, they represented the second top cause in under-5 mortality, decreasing to the seventh position in ...ratory infections and ... See full document

... luctuations of the original time series and of that modeled in winter, while the agreement was less evident in summer (Figure 3, ...included in this study, such as those of ... See full document