Is pneumonia among children in developing countries a different disease from the 1 among patients in the same age group in developed countries?

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2014 Feb;33(2):229-30. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000121.

Authors

Cristiana M Nascimento-Carvalho¹, Shabir A Madhi, Katherine L O'Brien

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Federal University of Bahia School of Medicine, Salvador, Brazil Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit and Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.

PMID: 24413414
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000121

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Female
Humans
Male
Pneumonia / diagnosis*
Pneumonia / pathology*
Radiography, Thoracic*