PERCH in Perspective: What Can It Teach Us About Pneumonia Etiology in Children?
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 28575353.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1093/cid/cix075 and PMC identifier 5447840.
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Abstract
The pneumonia team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation congratulates the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study on delivering on their grant to collect high-quality data from thousands of children with World Health Organization-defined severe and very severe pneumonia and from controls in 9 diverse sites in 7 low- and middle-income countries. This supplement sets the foundation to understanding this complex study by providing an in-depth description of the study methodology, including discussion of key aspects such as antibiotic pretreatment, chest radiograph interpretation, utility of induced sputum in children, measurement of pathogen density, and use of C-reactive protein, and how these affect pneumonia etiology.
Medical subject headings
- Pneumonia