Discovery and Validation of Biomarkers to Guide Clinical Management of Pneumonia in African Children
Author(s) -
Honglei Huang,
Readon C Ideh,
Evelyn Gitau,
Marie L. Thézénas,
Muminatou Jallow,
Bernard E. Ebruke,
Osaretin Chimah,
Claire Oluwalana,
Henri Karanja,
Grant Mackenzie,
Richard A. Adegbola,
Dominic Kwiatkowski,
Benedikt M. Kessler,
James A. Berkley,
Stephen R. C. Howie,
Climent CasalsPascual
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/ciu202
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumonia , biomarker , intensive care medicine , biomarker discovery , bacterial pneumonia , immunology , proteomics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children globally. Clinical algorithms remain suboptimal for distinguishing severe pneumonia from other causes of respiratory distress such as malaria or distinguishing bacterial pneumonia and pneumonia from others causes, such as viruses. Molecular tools could improve diagnosis and management.
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