Background Scaling up of evidence-based management of childhood acute respiratory
infection/pneumonia, is a public health priority in India, and necessitates robust literature …

Acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) continues to be associated with high mortality and
morbidity, despite advances in antimicrobial therapy. The causative organism varies with …

Objective To examine whether deviation from the standard intention to treat analysis has an
influence on treatment effect estimates of randomised trials. Design Meta-epidemiological …

Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health threat with 1.27 million and
4.95 million deaths attributable to and associated with bacterial AMR, respectively, in 2019 …

In the beginning of this 21st century, community‐acquired pneumonias (CAP) are still
responsible for a significant number of deaths among young children in many developing …

Global coverage of infant Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccination has increased
considerably during the past decade, partly due to GAVI Alliance donations of the vaccine to …

Background: Conjugate vaccines against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) are widely
used. The full implications of Hib vaccination schedule for vaccine effectiveness (VE) are …

Despite advances in the development and introduction of vaccines against the major
bacterial causes of meningitis, the disease and its long-term after-effects remain a problem …

The current manual describes approaches to measuring PCV and HibCV impact on disease
occurrence and a framework for determining the best methodology for measuring that impact …

The paper reviews the literature on the epidemiology of Hib disease and the effectiveness of
Hib conjugate vaccine (HibCV) in HIV-infected children. The current three-dose primary Hib …