2024
DOI: 10.25259/jhsr_52_2023
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Occurrence and management of lower respiratory tract infections in children at a Nigerian tertiary hospital

Chioma Assumpta Okonkwo,
Patricia Uche Ogbo,
Foluke Adenike Ayeni
et al.

Abstract: Objectives Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria are the major causes of child mortality, with pneumonia, a lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI), being the foremost of the three. Antimicrobial agents are required to treat LRTIs, such as pneumonia caused by bacteria, while those commonly caused by viruses, such as bronchiolitis, do not benefit from antimicrobial therapy unless laboratory tests indicate otherwise. When not shown, empirical management of patients using antimicrobials re… Show more

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