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Epidemiology of acute respiratory infections in children - preliminary results of a cohort in a rural north Indian community
- Source :
- BMC Infectious Diseases
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- Background Despite acute respiratory infections being a major cause of death among children in developing countries including India, there is a lack of community-based studies that document its burden and aetiology. Methods A dynamic cohort of children aged 0–10 years was established in four villages in a north Indian state of Haryana from August 2012 onwards. Trained health workers conducted weekly home visits to screen children for acute respiratory infection (ARI) defined as one of the following: cough, sore throat, nasal congestion, earache/discharge, or breathing difficulty. Nurses clinically assessed these children to grade disease severity based on standard age-specific guidelines into acute upper or lower respiratory infection (AURI or ALRI) and collected nasal/throat swabs for pathogen testing. Results Our first year results show that ARI incidence in 0–10 years of age was 5.9 (5.8–6.0) per child-year with minimal gender difference, the ALRI incidence in the under-five age group was higher among boys (0.43; 0.39–0.49) as compared to girls (0.31; 0.26–0.35) per child year. Boys had 2.4 times higher ARI-related hospitalization rate as compared to girls. Conclusion ARI impose a significant burden on the children of this cohort. This study platform aims to provide better evidence for prevention and control of pneumonia in developing countries.
- Subjects :
- Male
Rural Population
Acute respiratory infections
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Epidemiology
030231 tropical medicine
India
Burden
Developing countries
Cohort Studies
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Sore throat
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Child
Respiratory Tract Infections
Children
Respiratory tract infections
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Infant, Newborn
Cohort
1. No poverty
Infant
Respiratory infection
Pneumonia
medicine.disease
3. Good health
Hospitalization
Infectious Diseases
Child, Preschool
Acute Disease
Female
medicine.symptom
business
Research Article
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14712334
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....37778a45f9df3e6517f6a22b89ae7834
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-1188-1