Published in Lancet Infect Dis on January 01, 2002
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The global distribution and population at risk of malaria: past, present, and future. Lancet Infect Dis (2004) 14.42
Epidemiology and etiology of childhood pneumonia. Bull World Health Organ (2008) 9.17
The burden of malaria mortality among African children in the year 2000. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 6.64
Estimating child mortality due to diarrhoea in developing countries. Bull World Health Organ (2008) 5.59
Prospective study of one million deaths in India: rationale, design, and validation results. PLoS Med (2005) 5.05
The accuracy of human population maps for public health application. Trop Med Int Health (2005) 4.64
Epidemiology and etiology of childhood pneumonia in 2010: estimates of incidence, severe morbidity, mortality, underlying risk factors and causative pathogens for 192 countries. J Glob Health (2013) 3.30
Setting priorities in global child health research investments: assessment of principles and practice. Croat Med J (2007) 3.24
Sickle cell trait and the risk of Plasmodium falciparum malaria and other childhood diseases. J Infect Dis (2005) 3.12
Etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized children based on WHO clinical guidelines. Eur J Pediatr (2009) 2.80
Core verbal autopsy procedures with comparative validation results from two countries. PLoS Med (2006) 2.36
The influence of urbanisation on measures of Plasmodium falciparum infection prevalence in East Africa. Acta Trop (2005) 2.23
A prospective three-year cohort study of the epidemiology and virology of acute respiratory infections of children in rural India. PLoS One (2007) 2.15
Influenza A inhibits Th17-mediated host defense against bacterial pneumonia in mice. J Immunol (2010) 2.14
The Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group reviews of the effectiveness of interventions to reduce maternal, neonatal and child mortality. Int J Epidemiol (2010) 2.03
Pneumonia research to reduce childhood mortality in the developing world. J Clin Invest (2008) 2.01
Influenza-like illness sentinel surveillance in Peru. PLoS One (2009) 1.90
The burden of acute respiratory infections in crisis-affected populations: a systematic review. Confl Health (2010) 1.72
Prospective population-based study of viral lower respiratory tract infections in children under 3 years of age (the PRI.DE study). Eur J Pediatr (2004) 1.72
Large-scale spatial population databases in infectious disease research. Int J Health Geogr (2012) 1.68
Detection of respiratory viruses and subtype identification of influenza A viruses by GreeneChipResp oligonucleotide microarray. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.59
Genetic variability in the G protein gene of group A and B respiratory syncytial viruses from India. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.47
Molecular surveillance of true nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae: an evaluation of PCR screening assays. PLoS One (2012) 1.42
Viral etiologies of acute respiratory infections among hospitalized Vietnamese children in Ho Chi Minh City, 2004-2008. PLoS One (2011) 1.42
Comparison of nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs for the diagnosis of eight respiratory viruses by real-time reverse transcription-PCR assays. PLoS One (2011) 1.40
Lung epithelium as a sentinel and effector system in pneumonia--molecular mechanisms of pathogen recognition and signal transduction. Respir Res (2006) 1.39
Viral etiology of influenza-like illnesses in Antananarivo, Madagascar, July 2008 to June 2009. PLoS One (2011) 1.38
What are the implications for childhood pneumonia of successfully introducing Hib and pneumococcal vaccines in developing countries? PLoS Med (2008) 1.37
Multipathogen infections in hospitalized children with acute respiratory infections. Virol J (2009) 1.35
Ambient particulate air pollution and acute lower respiratory infections: a systematic review and implications for estimating the global burden of disease. Air Qual Atmos Health (2011) 1.33
A methodology for assessing the professional development needs of nurses and midwives in Indonesia: paper 1 of 3. Hum Resour Health (2006) 1.31
Transepithelial migration of neutrophils into the lung requires TREM-1. J Clin Invest (2012) 1.31
Rapid detection of respiratory tract viral infections and coinfections in patients with influenza-like illnesses by use of reverse transcription-PCR DNA microarray systems. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.28
Pneumolysin localizes to the cell wall of Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Bacteriol (2009) 1.28
Reducing bias from test misclassification in burden of disease studies: use of test to actual positive ratio--new test parameter. Croat Med J (2008) 1.27
Pneumococcal virulence gene expression and host cytokine profiles during pathogenesis of invasive disease. Infect Immun (2007) 1.24
Prevalence and clinical characterization of a newly identified human rhinovirus C species in children with acute respiratory tract infections. J Clin Microbiol (2009) 1.22
Contribution of vaccines to our understanding of pneumococcal disease. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2011) 1.21
Development of the Respiratory Index of Severity in Children (RISC) score among young children with respiratory infections in South Africa. PLoS One (2012) 1.21
Epidemiology and seasonality of respiratory viral infections in hospitalized children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: a retrospective study of 27 years. BMC Pediatr (2012) 1.20
Respiratory viral infections detected by multiplex PCR among pediatric patients with lower respiratory tract infections seen at an urban hospital in Delhi from 2005 to 2007. Virol J (2009) 1.18
The burden of influenza and RSV among inpatients and outpatients in rural western Kenya, 2009-2012. PLoS One (2014) 1.16
Influenza A viruses dual and multiple infections with other respiratory viruses and risk of hospitalisation and mortality. Influenza Other Respir Viruses (2012) 1.13
Comparison of Anyplex II RV16 with the xTAG respiratory viral panel and Seeplex RV15 for detection of respiratory viruses. J Clin Microbiol (2013) 1.12
The yefM-yoeB toxin-antitoxin systems of Escherichia coli and Streptococcus pneumoniae: functional and structural correlation. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.12
Re-emergence of the type 1 pilus among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Massachusetts, USA. Vaccine (2010) 1.12
Distinguishing malaria from severe pneumonia among hospitalized children who fulfilled integrated management of childhood illness criteria for both diseases: a hospital-based study in Mozambique. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2011) 1.12
A household-based study of acute viral respiratory illnesses in Andean children. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2014) 1.11
Genotypic analysis of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae from Mali, Africa, by semiautomated repetitive-element PCR and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.10
Epidemiology of respiratory viral infections in two long-term refugee camps in Kenya, 2007-2010. BMC Infect Dis (2012) 1.09
Air pollution and respiratory infections during early childhood: an analysis of 10 European birth cohorts within the ESCAPE Project. Environ Health Perspect (2013) 1.08
Respiratory viruses in children hospitalized for acute lower respiratory tract infection in Ghana. Virol J (2012) 1.08
Cohort profile: The study of respiratory pathogens in Andean children. Int J Epidemiol (2013) 1.07
Genetic variation in attachment glycoprotein genes of human respiratory syncytial virus subgroups a and B in children in recent five consecutive years. PLoS One (2013) 1.06
Influenza and other respiratory viruses in three Central American countries. Influenza Other Respir Viruses (2010) 1.05
Pleural innate response activator B cells protect against pneumonia via a GM-CSF-IgM axis. J Exp Med (2014) 1.04
Significant decline in pneumonia admission rate after the introduction of routine 2+1 dose schedule heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) in children under 5 years of age in Kielce, Poland. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2010) 1.03
Pneumonia's second wind? A case study of the global health network for childhood pneumonia. Health Policy Plan (2015) 1.02
Comparative dynamics, morbidity and mortality burden of pediatric viral respiratory infections in an equatorial city. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2012) 1.02
Viral etiologies of lower respiratory tract infections among Egyptian children under five years of age. BMC Infect Dis (2012) 1.02
Estimating pneumonia deaths of post-neonatal children in countries of low or no death certification in 2008. PLoS One (2011) 1.00
Viral and atypical bacterial etiology of acute respiratory infections in children under 5 years old living in a rural tropical area of Madagascar. PLoS One (2012) 0.98
Development of a multiplexed bead-based immunoassay for the simultaneous detection of antibodies to 17 pneumococcal proteins. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2010) 0.98
Immunization with polyamine transport protein PotD protects mice against systemic infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae. Infect Immun (2006) 0.96
Clinical case review: a method to improve identification of true clinical and radiographic pneumonia in children meeting the World Health Organization definition for pneumonia. BMC Infect Dis (2008) 0.96
Designed reduction of Streptococcus pneumoniae pathogenicity via synthetic changes in virulence factor codon-pair bias. J Infect Dis (2011) 0.96
Viral etiology and seasonality of influenza-like illness in Gabon, March 2010 to June 2011. BMC Infect Dis (2014) 0.95
Comparison of biomarkers and parent report of tobacco exposure to predict wheeze. J Pediatr (2011) 0.95
Molecular identification of adenovirus causing respiratory tract infection in pediatric patients at the University of Malaya Medical Center. BMC Pediatr (2010) 0.95
Export requirements of pneumolysin in Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Bacteriol (2012) 0.94
Molecular epidemiology of respiratory viruses in virus-induced asthma. Front Microbiol (2013) 0.93
Etiology and seasonality of viral respiratory infections in rural Honduran children. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2012) 0.93
Epidemiology of acute respiratory infections in children in Guangzhou: a three-year study. PLoS One (2014) 0.92
Treatment costs of pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis, and other diseases among hospitalized children in Viet Nam. J Health Popul Nutr (2010) 0.92
Trachoma: an update on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Curr Opin Ophthalmol (2012) 0.91
Interplay between manganese and iron in pneumococcal pathogenesis: role of the orphan response regulator RitR. Infect Immun (2012) 0.91
Viral etiology of acute respiratory infection in Gansu Province, China, 2011. PLoS One (2013) 0.91
Detection of respiratory viruses by PCR assay of nasopharyngeal swabs stored in skim milk-tryptone-glucose-glycerol transport medium. J Clin Microbiol (2011) 0.90
Does 3-day course of oral amoxycillin benefit children of non-severe pneumonia with wheeze: a multicentric randomised controlled trial. PLoS One (2008) 0.90
Maternal pneumococcal capsular IgG antibodies and transplacental transfer are low in South Asian HIV-infected mother-infant pairs. Vaccine (2014) 0.90
Amelioration of influenza-induced pathology in mice by coinfection with Trichinella spiralis. Infect Immun (2006) 0.89
Role of zinc in severe pneumonia: a randomized double bind placebo controlled study. Ital J Pediatr (2012) 0.88
The incidence and clinical burden of respiratory syncytial virus disease identified through hospital outpatient presentations in Kenyan children. PLoS One (2012) 0.88
Impact of HIV-1 status on the radiological presentation and clinical outcome of children with WHO defined community-acquired severe pneumonia. Arch Dis Child (2007) 0.88
Intrapleural hemorrhage due to alteplase use in a 6-year-old boy with pleural effusion. Int J Gen Med (2013) 0.88
The price of play: self-organized infant mortality cycles in chimpanzees. PLoS One (2008) 0.87
Contribution of respiratory tract infections to child deaths: a data linkage study. BMC Public Health (2014) 0.86
Observational follow-up study following two cohorts of children with severe pneumonia after discharge from day care clinic/hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. BMJ Open (2012) 0.86
Human coronaviruses associated with upper respiratory tract infections in three rural areas of Ghana. PLoS One (2014) 0.85
Respiratory virus infections in hospitalized children and adults in Lao PDR. Influenza Other Respir Viruses (2013) 0.85
Viral Etiology of acute respiratory tract infections in hospitalized children and adults in Shandong Province, China. Virol J (2015) 0.85
Pneumonia Mortality among Children under 5 in China from 1996 to 2013: An Analysis from National Surveillance System. PLoS One (2015) 0.83
Risk factors of severe pneumonia among children aged 2-59 months in western Kenya: a case control study. Pan Afr Med J (2012) 0.83
Global control of pneumococcal infections by pneumococcal vaccines. Trop Med Health (2014) 0.83
Burden of respiratory syncytial virus infections in China: Systematic review and meta-analysis. J Glob Health (2015) 0.83
Maternal smoking in prenatal and early postnatal life and the risk of respiratory tract infections in infancy. The Generation R study. Eur J Epidemiol (2008) 0.83
Epidemiology and virology of acute respiratory infections during the first year of life: a birth cohort study in Vietnam. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2015) 0.83
Universal voluntary HIV testing with immediate antiretroviral therapy as a strategy for elimination of HIV transmission: a mathematical model. Lancet (2008) 36.01
Ebola virus disease in West Africa--the first 9 months of the epidemic and forward projections. N Engl J Med (2014) 28.65
Where and why are 10 million children dying every year? Lancet (2003) 28.59
The growing burden of tuberculosis: global trends and interactions with the HIV epidemic. Arch Intern Med (2003) 24.99
WHO estimates of the causes of death in children. Lancet (2005) 18.33
Countdown to 2015 decade report (2000-10): taking stock of maternal, newborn, and child survival. Lancet (2010) 12.15
Towards an improved investment approach for an effective response to HIV/AIDS. Lancet (2011) 11.89
Countdown to 2015 for maternal, newborn, and child survival: the 2008 report on tracking coverage of interventions. Lancet (2008) 9.23
Epidemiology and etiology of childhood pneumonia. Bull World Health Organ (2008) 9.17
Inequities among the very poor: health care for children in rural southern Tanzania. Lancet (2003) 8.79
Evidence-based public health: moving beyond randomized trials. Am J Public Health (2004) 8.61
2008 estimate of worldwide rotavirus-associated mortality in children younger than 5 years before the introduction of universal rotavirus vaccination programmes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infect Dis (2011) 7.79
The burden of malaria mortality among African children in the year 2000. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 6.64
The potential impact of male circumcision on HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS Med (2006) 6.53
Tuberculosis. Lancet (2003) 6.39
Global trends in molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 during 2000-2007. AIDS (2011) 6.26
Drivers of tuberculosis epidemics: the role of risk factors and social determinants. Soc Sci Med (2009) 5.93
Global incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. J Infect Dis (2006) 5.42
The international Ebola emergency. N Engl J Med (2014) 5.35
Global and regional distribution of HIV-1 genetic subtypes and recombinants in 2004. AIDS (2006) 5.31
Equity in maternal, newborn, and child health interventions in Countdown to 2015: a retrospective review of survey data from 54 countries. Lancet (2012) 5.31
Measuring impact in the Millennium Development Goal era and beyond: a new approach to large-scale effectiveness evaluations. Lancet (2010) 5.11
Mind the gap: equity and trends in coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health services in 54 Countdown countries. Lancet (2008) 4.93
Gaps in policy-relevant information on burden of disease in children: a systematic review. Lancet (2005) 4.64
Monitoring mosquito net coverage for malaria control in Africa: possession vs. use by children under 5 years. Trop Med Int Health (2003) 4.29
Achieving universal coverage with health interventions. Lancet (2004) 4.29
Global estimate of the incidence of clinical pneumonia among children under five years of age. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 4.17
Effect of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy on childhood mortality and nutrition in a rural area in Bangladesh: a cluster randomised trial. Lancet (2009) 4.11
Measurement of trends in childhood malaria mortality in Africa: an assessment of progress toward targets based on verbal autopsy. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 4.10
Standards for CHERG reviews of intervention effects on child survival. Int J Epidemiol (2010) 3.90
Reducing the global burden of tuberculosis: the contribution of improved diagnostics. Nature (2006) 3.72
Feasibility and cost-effectiveness of standardised second-line drug treatment for chronic tuberculosis patients: a national cohort study in Peru. Lancet (2002) 3.67
Global mortality associated with rotavirus disease among children in 2004. J Infect Dis (2009) 3.63
Antiretroviral therapy for prevention of tuberculosis in adults with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Med (2012) 3.44
Diarrhea incidence in low- and middle-income countries in 1990 and 2010: a systematic review. BMC Public Health (2012) 3.44
Alcohol use as a risk factor for tuberculosis - a systematic review. BMC Public Health (2008) 3.32
Diabetes and the risk of tuberculosis: a neglected threat to public health? Chronic Illn (2007) 3.31
The effect of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness on observed quality of care of under-fives in rural Tanzania. Health Policy Plan (2004) 3.27
Human immunodeficiency virus and the prevalence of undiagnosed tuberculosis in African gold miners. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2004) 3.26
Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: II. Results for the global burden of disease 2000. BMC Cancer (2002) 3.26
Co-coverage of preventive interventions and implications for child-survival strategies: evidence from national surveys. Lancet (2005) 3.17
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in Bangladesh: early findings from a cluster-randomised study. Lancet (2004) 3.06
West African Ebola epidemic after one year--slowing but not yet under control. N Engl J Med (2014) 2.96
AIDS among older children and adolescents in Southern Africa: projecting the time course and magnitude of the epidemic. AIDS (2009) 2.92
Context matters: interpreting impact findings in child survival evaluations. Health Policy Plan (2005) 2.89
Antiretroviral drugs for tuberculosis control in the era of HIV/AIDS. Science (2003) 2.83
HIV infection, antiretroviral therapy, and CD4+ cell count distributions in African populations. J Infect Dis (2006) 2.82
Malaria attributable to the HIV-1 epidemic, sub-Saharan Africa. Emerg Infect Dis (2005) 2.80
Epidemiological benefits of more-effective tuberculosis vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 2.78
The global impact of scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention programs in low- and middle-income countries. Science (2006) 2.76
Worldwide incidence of malaria in 2009: estimates, time trends, and a critique of methods. PLoS Med (2011) 2.74
Improving facility-based care for sick children in Uganda: training is not enough. Health Policy Plan (2005) 2.61
Improving antimicrobial use among health workers in first-level facilities: results from the multi-country evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy. Bull World Health Organ (2004) 2.61
Meeting international goals in child survival and HIV/AIDS. Lancet (2002) 2.55
Setting research priorities to reduce global mortality from childhood diarrhoea by 2015. PLoS Med (2009) 2.55
Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for tuberculosis control in developing countries. BMJ (2005) 2.50
Quality of sick child care delivered by Health Surveillance Assistants in Malawi. Health Policy Plan (2012) 2.50
Effects of human immunodeficiency virus infection on recurrence of tuberculosis after rifampin-based treatment: an analytical review. Clin Infect Dis (2003) 2.49
Towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support: the role of tuberculosis/HIV collaboration. Lancet Infect Dis (2006) 2.48
Tuberculosis control in the era of HIV. Nat Rev Immunol (2005) 2.40
A consistent log-linear relationship between tuberculosis incidence and body mass index. Int J Epidemiol (2009) 2.20
Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. N Engl J Med (2014) 2.19
Ebola virus disease among children in West Africa. N Engl J Med (2015) 2.17
Tuberculosis epidemics driven by HIV: is prevention better than cure? AIDS (2003) 2.11
Care at first-level facilities for children with severe pneumonia in Bangladesh: a cohort study. Lancet (2008) 2.10
Cost, affordability and cost-effectiveness of strategies to control tuberculosis in countries with high HIV prevalence. BMC Public Health (2005) 2.09
GB virus type C coinfection in HIV-infected African mothers and their infants, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Clin Infect Dis (2004) 2.08
Pediatric mortality in Africa: plasmodium falciparum malaria as a cause or risk? Am J Trop Med Hyg (2004) 1.98
Infectiousness in a cohort of brazilian dogs: why culling fails to control visceral leishmaniasis in areas of high transmission. J Infect Dis (2002) 1.97
Patterns in coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health interventions: projections of neonatal and under-5 mortality to 2035. Lancet (2013) 1.92
Spatial analysis of tuberculosis cases in migrants and permanent residents, Beijing, 2000-2006. Emerg Infect Dis (2008) 1.91
Measuring coverage in MNCH: challenges in monitoring the proportion of young children with pneumonia who receive antibiotic treatment. PLoS Med (2013) 1.90
Measuring coverage in MNCH: a prospective validation study in Pakistan and Bangladesh on measuring correct treatment of childhood pneumonia. PLoS Med (2013) 1.90
Child health: reaching the poor. Am J Public Health (2004) 1.87
Evaluation of immigrant tuberculosis screening in industrialized countries. Emerg Infect Dis (2012) 1.81
Improving quality and efficiency of facility-based child health care through Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in Tanzania. Health Policy Plan (2005) 1.77
HIV treatment as prevention: debate and commentary--will early infection compromise treatment-as-prevention strategies? PLoS Med (2012) 1.76
Estimating diarrhea mortality among young children in low and middle income countries. PLoS One (2012) 1.75
Interpreting health statistics for policymaking: the story behind the headlines. Lancet (2007) 1.72
Methodological and quality issues in epidemiological studies of acute lower respiratory infections in children in developing countries. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 1.72
Lives saved by Global Fund-supported HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria programs: estimation approach and results between 2003 and end-2007. BMC Infect Dis (2010) 1.67
Scaling up integrated management of childhood illness to the national level: achievements and challenges in Peru. Health Policy Plan (2005) 1.67
Prevalence of HIV among truck drivers visiting sex workers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Sex Transm Dis (2002) 1.66
Ebola vaccine--an urgent international priority. N Engl J Med (2014) 1.66
Estimating HIV incidence among adults in Kenya and Uganda: a systematic comparison of multiple methods. PLoS One (2011) 1.56
Measuring coverage in MNCH: challenges and opportunities in the selection of coverage indicators for global monitoring. PLoS Med (2013) 1.53
Effect of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) on health worker performance in Northeast-Brazil. Cad Saude Publica (2004) 1.52
Highly active antiretroviral treatment for the prevention of HIV transmission. J Int AIDS Soc (2010) 1.51
The impact of incident and prevalent herpes simplex virus-2 infection on the incidence of HIV-1 infection among commercial sex workers in South Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2005) 1.51
The development and impact of tuberculosis vaccines. Cell (2006) 1.50
Health workers' and managers' perceptions of the integrated community case management program for childhood illness in Malawi: the importance of expanding access to child health services. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2012) 1.50
Antiretroviral therapy for tuberculosis control in nine African countries. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.48
The effect of Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on childhood pneumonia incidence, severe morbidity and mortality. Int J Epidemiol (2010) 1.43
Changing patterns of knowledge, reported behaviour and sexually transmitted infections in a South African gold mining community. AIDS (2003) 1.42