Managing and preventing childhood pneumonia in South Africa: Updated South African guidelines

R J Green; H J Zar; S A Mahdi

doi:10.7196/SAMJ.2020.v110i8.15113

Continuing Medical Education

Managing and preventing childhood pneumonia in South Africa: Updated South African guidelines

R J Green, H J Zar, S A Mahdi

Abstract

Authors' affiliations

R J Green, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

H J Zar, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town; and South African Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa

S A Mahdi, South African Medical Research Council Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; and Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: South African Research Chair in Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa