Journal article
Risk factors for community-acquired pneumonia among adults in Kenya: a case-control study.
- Abstract:
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Background
Pneumonia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among adults worldwide; however, the risk factors for community-acquired pneumonia in Africa are not well characterized.
Methods
The authors recruited 281 cases of community-acquired pneumonia and 1202 hospital controls among patients aged ≥15 years who attended Kilifi District Hospital/Coast Provincial General Hospital in Kenya between 1994 and 6. Cases were admissions with an acute illness with ≥...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Pneumonia Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 17
- Publication date:
- 2017-11-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-17
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2200-6133
- ISSN:
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2200-6133
- Pmid:
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29209590
- Source identifiers:
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810978
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:810978
- UUID:
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uuid:4a467900-6b96-4561-a22d-db79612e666d
- Local pid:
- pubs:810978
- Deposit date:
- 2018-01-22
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- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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