ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2013
Severe lower respiratory tract infection in early infancy and pneumonia hospitalizations among children, Kenya.
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- Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in hospitalized children with community-acquired pneumonia in Guangzhou: a 10-year study.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Article
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- Evolution of respiratory syncytial virus genotype BA in Kilifi, Kenya, 15 years on.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Infant Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis and Subsequent Risk of Pneumonia, Otitis Media, and Antibiotic Utilization.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020Article
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- Role of iBALT in Respiratory Immunity.Current topics in microbiology and immunology · 2020Review
- Integrated Cross-Sectional Multiplex Serosurveillance of IgG Antibody Responses to Parasitic Diseases and Vaccines in Coastal Kenya.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Children With Noncritical Infections Have Increased Intestinal Permeability, Endotoxemia and Altered Innate Immune Responses.The Pediatric infectious disease journal · 2019Article
- HIV and early hospital readmission: evaluation of a tertiary medical facility in Lilongwe, Malawi.BMC health services research · 2018Article
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- Antibody response to respiratory syncytial virus infection in children <18 months old.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2016Article
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- Rapid replacement of human respiratory syncytial virus A with the ON1 genotype having 72 nucleotide duplication in G gene.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2014Article
- Epidemiology, etiology, x-ray features, importance of co-infections and clinical features of viral pneumonia in developing countries.Expert review of anti-infective therapy · 2014Review
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Abstract
Severe lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in infants caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been associated with later pneumonia hospitalization among children. To determine risk for pneumonia after RSV hospitalization in infancy, we conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of 2,813 infants admitted to a hospital in Kenya and identified readmissions for pneumonia among this group during early childhood (<60 months of age). Incidence of readmission for pneumonia was higher for children whose first admission as infants was for LRTI and who were <3 months of age than for children who were first admitted as infants for non-LRTI, irrespective of RSV status. Incidence of readmission for pneumonia with wheeze was higher for children whose first admission involved RSV compared with those who had non-RSV LRTI. Excess pneumonia risk persisted for 2 years after the initial hospitalization. Close postdischarge follow-up of infants with LRTI, with or without RSV, could help prevent severe pneumonia later in childhood.
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