Predictors of Duration and Treatment Failure of Severe Pneumonia in Hospitalized Young Nepalese Children

• Sudha Basnet ,

  * E-mail: sudhacbasnet@gmail.com

  Affiliations Child Health Department, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, Centre for International Health and Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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• Arun Sharma,

  Affiliation Child Health Department, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Maria Mathisen,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromso, Norway

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• Prakash Sunder Shrestha,

  Affiliation Child Health Department, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Ram Kumar Ghimire,

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Dhiraj Man Shrestha,

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu University, Nepal

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• Palle Valentiner-Branth,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Division of National Health Surveillance & Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Halvor Sommerfelt,

  Affiliations Centre for International Health and Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of International Public Health, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

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• Tor A. Strand

  Affiliations Centre for International Health and Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Division of Medical Services, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Lillehammer, Norway

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