Mortality Associated With Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Among Children <5 Years of Age in a High HIV Prevalence Setting—South Africa, 1998–2009
Author(s) -
Stefano Tempia,
Sibongile Walaza,
Cécile Viboud,
Adam L. Cohen,
Shabir A. Madhi,
Marietjie Venter,
Johanna M. McAnerney,
Cheryl Cohen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciu095
Subject(s) - medicine , poisson regression , pandemic , pneumonia , confidence interval , relative risk , epidemiology , influenza a virus , pediatrics , immunology , virus , demography , population , environmental health , covid-19 , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , sociology
There are few published data describing the mortality burden associated with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in children in low- and middle-income countries and particularly from Africa and settings with high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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