Population-based Incidence and Etiology of Community-acquired Neonatal Viral Infections in Bangladesh: A

Azadeh Farzin1, Samir K Saha, Abdullah H Baqui

  • 1From the *International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; †Department of Microbiology, Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh; ‡Measure Demographic Health Surveys, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC; §Department of Pediatrics, Kumudini Women's Medical College, Mirzapur, Tangail, Bangladesh; ¶Department of Neonatology, Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh; ‖Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; **Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado; ††Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado; ‡‡Department of Child Health, ICDDR,B, Dhaka, Bangladesh; §§Department of Microbiology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom; ¶¶National Institutes Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom; and ‖‖Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.

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