@article{2c01a119ba9949d29fb1236564b39644,
title = "Epidemiology of acute respiratory tract infections among young children in Kenya",
abstract = "The epidemiology of acute respiratory tract infection (ARI) was investigated in a rural community 80 km north of Nairobi, Kenya. This research was conducted prospectively on 250 families with 470 children <5 years of age who were contacted every 8 days during the 3-year study. The yearly incidence of respiratory tract infections decreased from 5.2 to 3.4 during the study; <5\% of these infections involved the lower respiratory tract. The incidence was inversely related to age, and the illnesses were generally mild and brief in length. Fifteen children died during the study period. The precise causes of death are unknown, but respiratory infections possibly played a role in most cases. This study emphasizes the importance of determining the risk factors responsible for unusually severe morbidity and high mortality in children with ARI in developing countries.",
author = "Wafula, \{E. M.\} and Onyango, \{F. E.\} and Mirza, \{W. M.\} and Macharia, \{W. M.\} and I. Wamola and Ndinya-Achola, \{J. O.\} and R. Agwanda and Waigwa, \{R. N.\} and J. Musia",
note = "Funding Information: Guidelines of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council on clinical research involving human subjects were followed. Informed consent was obtained from each parent or guardian. Financial support for this research was provided by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council by means of a grant from the Office of the Science Advisor, Agency for International Development. These agencies also provided train ing sessions for the researchers and regularly sent consultants for the project for review and assistance. The authors are grateful to Prof. S. O. Wandiga, Deputy ViceChancellor, Administration and Finance, University of Nairobi, for supporting the project and agreeing to administer the finances of the project; to Prof. N. O. Bwibo, Principal, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, and Prof. J. S. Meme, Chairman, Department of Paediatrics, College of Health Sciences, for their invaluable support and the permission they granted to carry out the project; to the Ministry of Health, especially the Division of Communicable Diseases Control, the Records Department, Kenyatta National Hospital, and Maragua Rural Health lfaining Centre, for their support ofthe project and their contributiontotheprojectintermsofpersonnelandtransport-special appreciation goes to Dr. T. K. Arap Siongok, Director, Division of Communicable Diseases and Control, and Mr. A. Waweru, Officer in charge of Maragua Rural Health hining Centre, for their special contribution; to Prof. F. A. Loda from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for helping with the launching of the study; and to Miss Rosalind Wambui Bernard for typing the manuscript. Please address requests for reprints to Dr. E. M. Wafula, Department of Paediatrics, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 30197, Nairobi, Kenya.",
year = "1990",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1093/clinids/12.Supplement\_8.S1035",
language = "English (UK)",
volume = "12",
pages = "S1035--S1038",
journal = "Reviews of Infectious Diseases",
issn = "0162-0886",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
}