This article, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, details the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) project, which is a seven-country, standardized, comprehensive evaluation of the etiologic agents causing severe pneumonia in children from low-resource countries.

Author(s): Levine OS, O'Brien KL, Deloria-Knoll M, et al.

Published: 2012

Resource types: Peer-reviewed journal

Diseases: Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib); Pneumococcus

Topics: Disease burden and surveillance

Regions: Global