Pneunomia Etiology Child Health Research Methods and Preparatory Results Published
Description
News release describing the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) project and preliminary results published in a 23 paper supplement in the journal, Clinical Infectious Diseases (Vol. 64, suppl. 3, June 15, 2017). PERCH is the largest pneumonia etiology study conducted since the 1980’s. The University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) is a collaborating institution in the project. Participating School of Medicine faculty include Karen L. Kotloff, MD, Samba Sow, MD, MS, and Milagritos Tapia, MD. Katherine O’Brien, MD, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the principal investigator for the project.Keyword
Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH)University of Maryland, Baltimore. Center for Vaccine Development (CVD)
Developing Countries
Pneumonia--etiology
Child, Preschool
Infant