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A high burden of respiratory syncytial virus associated pneumonia in children less than two years of age in a South East Asian refugee population
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Background Pneumonia is a major cause of childhood mortality and morbidity approximately 1.6 million deaths and 150 million episodes occur annually in children <5 years. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) may be responsible for up to 25% of cases and 12% of deaths making it an important potential vaccine target, although data from South East Asia is scarce. Methods We followed a birth cohort of Burmese refugee children, born over a one year period, for two years. Pneumonia episodes were dia...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0050100
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
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- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 11
- Pages:
- ARTN e50100
- Publication date:
- 2012-11-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2012-10-19
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1932-6203
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1932-6203
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- English
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365454
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- Turner et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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- Copyright: © 2012 Turner et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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