TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kenny George
AU  - Neema Kayange
TI  - Prevalence and assessment of pneumonia within the paediatric group at Sekou Toure regional hospital
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Mwanza, Tanzania: 
PB  - Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS – Bugando] :   
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N2  - Abstract: 

Pneumonia remains the leading cause of childhood mortality and the most common reason for adult hospitalization in low and middle income countries, despite advances in preventive and management strategies. In the last decade. Pneumonia mortality in children has fallen to approximately 1.3 million cases in 2011. With most deaths occurring in low income countries. Important recent advances include more widespread implementation of protein-polysaccharide conjugate vaccines against haemophilus influenza type B and streptococcus pneumoniae, implementation of case-management algorithms and better prevention and treatment of HIV. Determining the etiology of pneumonia is challenging in the absence of reliable diagnostic tests. High uptake of new bacterial conjugate vaccines may impact on pneumonia burden, etiology and empiric therapy but implementation in immunization programs in many low and middle income countries remains an obstacle. Widespread implementation of currently effective preventive and management strategies for pneumonia remains challenging in many low and middle income countries.

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