Abstract
The burden of viral respiratory infections in young children in low-resource settings
Highlights
Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI), encompassing bacterial and viral pneumonias, acute viral bronchiolitis, and bacterial and viral bronchitis, remain the leading cause of global child mortality.[1]
The thrust of global prevention and treatment efforts has been directed against bacterial causes of ALRI, and deaths from bacterial pneumonia have decreased substantially since 1990 because of improved access to health care and life-saving antibiotics, as well as increased use of vaccines targeted at bacterial respiratory pathogens
In The Lancet Global Health, Xin Wang and colleagues[3] estimated the regional and global burden of influenzavirus-associated ALRI in children younger than 5 years in 2018. Compared with their previous estimates[4] in 2008 (35 per 1000 children per year [95% CI 22–55]), the authors estimated a lower incidence of influenzavirus-associated ALRI in 2018 (15·6 per 1000 children per year [uncertainty range 10·3–23·6]) for ages 0–4 years in developing countries
Summary
Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI), encompassing bacterial and viral pneumonias, acute viral bronchiolitis, and bacterial and viral bronchitis, remain the leading cause of global child mortality.[1]. The burden of viral respiratory infections in young children in low-resource settings
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