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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Krishnan, Anand
• Amarchand, Ritvik
• Gupta, Vivek
• Lafond, Kathryn E
• Suliankatchi, Rizwan Abdulkader
• Saha, Siddhartha
• Rai, Sanjay
• Misra, Puneet
• Purakayastha, Debjani Ram
• Wahi, Abhishek
• Sreenivas, Vishnubhatla
• Kapil, Arti
• Dawood, Fatimah
• Pandav, Chandrakant S
• Broor, Shobha
• Kapoor, Suresh K
• Lal, Renu
• Widdowson, Marc-Alain

Titel

Epidemiology of acute respiratory infections in children - preliminary results of a cohort in a rural north Indian community

Ist Teil von

• BMC infectious diseases, 2015-10, Vol.15 (1), p.462-462, Article 462

Ort / Verlag

England: BioMed Central Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

SpringerLink Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite acute respiratory infections being a major cause of death among children in developing countries including India, there is a lack of community-based studies that document its burden and aetiology. A dynamic cohort of children aged 0-10 years was established in four villages in a north Indian state of Haryana from August 2012 onwards. Trained health workers conducted weekly home visits to screen children for acute respiratory infection (ARI) defined as one of the following: cough, sore throat, nasal congestion, earache/discharge, or breathing difficulty. Nurses clinically assessed these children to grade disease severity based on standard age-specific guidelines into acute upper or lower respiratory infection (AURI or ALRI) and collected nasal/throat swabs for pathogen testing. Our first year results show that ARI incidence in 0-10 years of age was 5.9 (5.8-6.0) per child-year with minimal gender difference, the ALRI incidence in the under-five age group was higher among boys (0.43; 0.39-0.49) as compared to girls (0.31; 0.26-0.35) per child year. Boys had 2.4 times higher ARI-related hospitalization rate as compared to girls. ARI impose a significant burden on the children of this cohort. This study platform aims to provide better evidence for prevention and control of pneumonia in developing countries.