| diagnoses of acute lower respiratory tract infections in children in rawalpindi and islamabad, pakistan. | a hospital-based inpatient and outpatient study of 1,492 cases of acute lower respiratory tract infection (alri) was conducted from november 1986 to march 1988 in two hospitals in rawalpindi and islamabad, pakistan. specimens of nasopharyngeal aspirate were processed for viral studies in all cases; blood cultures were performed in 1,331 cases; and urine was obtained for detection of bacterial antigen in 378 cases, but 227 of these samples had bacterial contamination and were discarded. respirato ... | 1990 | 2270413 |
| clonal analysis of hemophilus influenzae isolated from children from pakistan with lower respiratory tract infections. | the clonal diversity of 105 hemophilus isolates from the blood of children with lower respiratory tract infection in pakistan was analyzed. ten isolates were identified as h. parainfluenzae and 95 as h. influenzae. of the h. influenzae isolates, 61 (64%) were serotype b and 34 (36%) were nontypable; 95% of the type b isolates were members of a single clonal group (as defined by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis, sds-page outer membrane protein profile, and biotype). this clone is rarely observed ... | 1989 | 2677160 |