Treatment Failures and Excess Mortality Among HIV-Exposed, Uninfected Children With Pneumonia
Author(s) -
Matthew S. Kelly,
Kathleen E. Wirth,
Andrew P. Steenhoff,
Coleen K. Cunningham,
Tonya ArscottMills,
Sefelani Boiditswe,
Mohamed Z. Patel,
Samir S. Shah,
Rodney Finalle,
Ishmael Makone,
Kristen A. Feemster
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of the pediatric infectious diseases society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.269
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 2048-7207
pISSN - 2048-7193
DOI - 10.1093/jpids/piu092
Subject(s) - medicine , pediatrics , pneumonia , prospective cohort study , confidence interval , cohort study , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , cohort , relative risk , immunology
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-exposed, uninfected (HIV-EU) children are at increased risk of infectious illnesses and mortality compared with children of HIV-negative mothers (HIV-unexposed). However, treatment outcomes for lower respiratory tract infections among HIV-EU children remain poorly defined.
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