Pneumonia data

Abstract

The dataset was collected as part of a clinical study described by Huang et al. [1]. The 1581 participants were Gambian children aged 2-59 months: 780 were diagnosed with childhood pneumonia and 801 were recruited as healthy controls. [1] H. Huang, R. C. Ideh, E. Gitau, M. L. Thezenas, M. Jallow, B. Ebruke, O. Chimah, C. Oluwalana, H. Karanja, G. Mackenzie, R. A. Adegbola, D. Kwiatkowski, B. M. Kessler, J. A. Berkley, S. R. Howie, and C. Casals-Pascual, “Discovery and validation of biomarkers to guide clinical management of pneumonia in african children,” Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, vol. 58, no. 12, pp. 1707–1715, Jun 2014