Multicenter case–control study protocol of pneumonia etiology in children: Global Approach to Biological Research, Infectious diseases and Epidemics in Low-income countries (GABRIEL network)

Picot, Valentina Sanchez; Bénet, Thomas; Messaoudi, Melina; Telles, Jean-Noël; Chou, Monidarin; Eap, Tekchheng; Wang, Jianwei; Shen, Kunling; Pape, Jean-William; Rouzier, Vanessa; Awasthi, Shally; Pandey, Nitin; Bavdekar, Ashish; Sanghvi, Sonali; Robinson, Annick; Contamin, Bénédicte; Hoffmann, Jonathan; Sylla, Maryam; Diallo, Souleymane; Nymadawa, Pagbajabyn; Dash-Yandag, Budragchaagiin; Russomando, Graciela; Basualdo, Wilma; Siqueira, Marilda M; Barreto, Patricia; Komurian-Pradel, Florence; Vernet, Guy; Endtz, Hubert; Vanhems, Philippe; Paranhos-Baccalà, Gláucia

doi:10.1186/s12879-014-0635-8

Table 1 Description of sites in multicenter case–control study of pneumonia etiology in children

From: Multicenter case–control study protocol of pneumonia etiology in children: Global Approach to Biological Research, Infectious diseases and Epidemics in Low-income countries (GABRIEL network)

Study site characteristics						Country characteristics					Introduction into national immunization program ^a
Hospital	Country	Town	Related research center	Population type	Climate	Country population, millions (year) ^a	Population living in poverty, % (year) ^a	Child mortality rate (‰) ^b	Annual pneumonia cases ^c	Deaths caused by pneumonia annually ^c	PCV ^d	Hib ^evaccine
General Bonsucesso Hospital	Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	Fundaçao Oswaldo Cruz	Urban	Rain/Dry	199 (2009)	6.1 (2009)	16	1,497,706	3,079	2010	1999
National Pediatric Hospital	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Phnom Pehn Faculty of Pharmacy and University of Health Sciences	Urban	Rain/Dry	14.9 (2012)	18.6 (2009)	43	373,583	2,101	Not introduced	2010
Beijing Children’s Hospital	China	Beijing	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences	Urban	Four seasons	1,351 (2012)	11.8 (2009)	15	6,488,544	43,089	Not introduced	Not introduced
Tent City Hospital^f	Haïti	Port au Prince	GHESKIO Centers	Urban/rural	Rain/Dry	10.2 (2012)	61.7 (2001)	70	345,081	4,090	Not introduced	2012
KEM Hospital Research Center Shirdi Sai Baba Rural Hospital	India	Pune/Vadu	KEM Hospital Research Center Sai Baba Rural Hospital	Urban/rural	Three seasons	1,236.7 (2012)	32.7 (2010)	61	35,361,230	388,144	Not introduced	2011
Chatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University Hospital	India	Lucknow	Chatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University	Urban/rural	Rain/Dry	1,236.7 (2012)	32.7 (2010)	61	35,361,230	388,144	Not introduced	2011
Hôpital Femme-Mere-Enfant	Madagascar	Antananarivo	Centre Charles Mérieux	Urban	Rain/Dry	22.3 (2012)	81.3 (2010)	62	1,051,407	2,638	2011	2008
Gabriel Toure Hospital	Mali	Bamako	Centre Charles Mérieux	Urban/rural	Rain/Dry	14.9 (2012)	50.4 (2010)	176	932,894	7,893	2008	2011
Bayanzurkh District General Hospital	Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	Mongolian Academy of Medical Sciences	Urban	Four seasons	2.8 (2012)	27.4 (2012)	31	60,292	332	Not introduced	2008
Pediatric General Hospital, Niños de Acosta Ñu	Paraguay	San Lorenzo	Research Institute of Health	Urban/rural	Rain/Dry	6.7 (2009)	7.2 (2012)	22	139,661	368	2012	2002

^aInternational Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Vaccine Information Management System (VIMS) Global Vaccine Introduction Report, October 2013. www.jhsph.edu/ivac/vims.html.
^bWorld Bank Group: http://povertydata.worldbank.org.
^cData from Rudan I, O’Brien KL, Nair H, et al. 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;3:010401.
^dPneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
^e Haemophilus influenzae type B.
^fThe hospital is settled in a tent city community.

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