Journal article
Global respiratory syncytial virus-associated mortality in young children (RSV GOLD): a retrospective case series
NM Scheltema, A Gentile, F Lucion, DJ Nokes, PK Munywoki, SA Madhi, MJ Groome, C Cohen, J Moyes, K Thorburn, S Thamthitiwat, H Oshitani, SP Lupisan, A Gordon, JF Sánchez, KL O'Brien, BD Gessner, A Sutanto, A Mejias, O Ramilo Show all
Lancet Global Health | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2017
Abstract
Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is an important cause of pneumonia mortality in young children. However, clinical data for fatal RSV infection are scarce. We aimed to identify clinical and socioeconomic characteristics of children aged younger than 5 years with RSV-related mortality using individual patient data. Methods In this retrospective case series, we developed an online questionnaire to obtain individual patient data for clinical and socioeconomic characteristics of children aged younger than 5 years who died with community-acquired RSV infection between Jan 1, 1995, and Oct 31, 2015, through leading research groups for child pneumonia identified through a comp..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The study was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (grant OPP1148988). We thank Mayuko Saito, Mwanajuma Ngama, Anne Bett, Cristiane Campos Monteiro, and Arjan Boer for their role in data collection.