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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
The pneumonia etiology research for child health project: A 21st century childhood pneumonia etiology study
Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 54, No. SUPPL. 2, Year 2012
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Description
The Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) project is a 7-country, standardized, comprehensive evaluation of the etiologic agents causing severe pneumonia in children from developing countries. During previous etiology studies, between one-quarter and one-third of patients failed to yield an obvious etiology; PERCH will employ and evaluate previously unavailable innovative, more sensitive diagnostic techniques. Innovative and rigorous epidemiologic and analytic methods will be used to establish the causal association between presence of potential pathogens and pneumonia. By strategic selection of study sites that are broadly representative of regions with the greatest burden of childhood pneumonia, PERCH aims to provide data that reflect the epidemiologic situation in developing countries in 2015, using pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccines. PERCH will also address differences in host, environmental, and/or geographic factors that might determine pneumonia etiology and, by preserving specimens, will generate a resource for future research and pathogen discovery. © 2012 The Author.
Authors & Co-Authors
Levine, Orin S.
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
O'Brien, Katherine L.
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Deloria Knoll, Maria
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Murdoch, David Roger
New Zealand, Christchurch
University of Otago, Christchurch
New Zealand, Christchurch
Canterbury Health Laboratories
Feikin, Daniel R.
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Deluca, Andrea N.
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Driscoll, Amanda J.
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baggett, Henry C.
Thailand, Nontaburi
Thailand Ministry of Public Health
Brooks, W. Abdullah
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Bangladesh, Dhaka
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh
Howie, Stephen R.C.
Gambia, Banjul
Medical Research Council Laboratories Gambia
Kotloff, Karen L.
United States, Baltimore
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Madhi, Shabir A.
South Africa, Johannesburg
National Institute for Communicable Diseases
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand
Maloney, Susan A.
Thailand, Nontaburi
Thailand Ministry of Public Health
Sow, Samba Ousmane
United States, Baltimore
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Mali, Bamako
Centre Pour le Développement Des Vaccins
Thea, Donald M.
United States, Boston
School of Public Health
Scott, John Anthony Gerard
Kenya, Nairobi
Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories Nairobi
United Kingdom, Oxford
Nuffield Department of Medicine
Statistics
Citations: 181
Authors: 16
Affiliations: 15
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/cid/cir1052
ISSN:
10584838
e-ISSN:
15376591
Research Areas
Maternal And Child Health