| aetiology and clinical presentation of pneumonia in hospitalized and outpatient children in northeast brazil and risk factors for severity. | data on presentation, aetiology, and prognostic indicators of childhood pneumonia, which can help design strategies for controlling the disease, are generally scarce in developing countries. in this paper, the distribution of aetiologic agents, clinical presentation, and evolution of pneumonia cases are described, and the factors associated with duration of pneumonia episode and of hospital admission examined. during june 1994-june 1995, 472 children, aged 6-59 months, with clinical diagnosis of ... | 2005 | 15884747 |
| dexamethasone adjunctive therapy for bacterial meningitis in children: a retrospective study in brazil. | the clinical records of 87 children with bacterial meningitis treated with antibiotics (group 1) and of 92 treated with antibiotics plus dexamethasone (group 2), admitted to the instituto materno infantil de pernambuco, recife, brazil over 2 consecutive years (1991 and 1992), were analysed. there were no significant differences between treatment groups regarding characteristics on admission except that group 1 were younger. the overall case fatality rate was 19%, with 14% in group 2 and 24% in g ... | 1996 | 8893947 |
| occurrence of haemophilus influenzae strains in three brazilian states since the introduction of a conjugate haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine. | few vaccines in history have induced such a dramatic decline in incidence over such a short period of time as the haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) conjugate. this vaccine was introduced in 1988 in the united states, but only in 1999 was hib immunization introduced by the brazilian ministry of health as part of the routine infant national immunization program. the authors analyzed 229 h. influenzae (hi) isolates from public health laboratories in three brazilian states: pernambuco (northeast, ... | 2005 | 15917960 |