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Which children still die from pneumonia

Edited by:
Grant Austin Mackenzie, PhD FRACP, MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, The Gambia

Submission Status: Closed   |   Submission Deadline: 10 April 2025


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About the collection

Pneumonia is calling for submissions to our collection on Which children still die from pneumonia. The use of measles vaccines and the introduction of Hib and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have reduced the burden of pneumonia in children, however child mortality associated with pneumonia continues to be a major public health problem. This collection will provide an update on the changing epidemiology of child pneumonia mortality, etiology, and risk factors worldwide. The collection will summarise ongoing challenges for pneumonia treatment and vaccination to prevent deaths. The collection will outline priorities for clinical care and research focused on further reductions in child pneumonia mortality.

  1. Populations affected by humanitarian crises likely experience high burdens of pneumococcal disease. Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage estimates are essential to understand pneumococcal transmission dynamics and t...

    Authors: Kevin van Zandvoort, Abdirahman Ibrahim Hassan, Mohamed Omer Bobe, Casey L. Pell, Mohamed Saed Ahmed, Belinda D. Ortika, Saed Ibrahim, Mohamed Ismail Abdi, Mustapha A. Karim, Rosalind M. Eggo, Saleban Yousuf Ali, Jason Hinds, Saeed Mohamood Soleman, Rachael Cummings, Catherine R. McGowan, E. Kim Mulholland…
    Citation: Pneumonia 2024 16:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most frequent causative pathogen of bacterial pneumonia in children worldwide. Bangladesh introduced the 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV10) in their national immuniza...

    Authors: Stefan M. T. Vestjens, Suzan P. van Mens, Bob Meek, Tariq A. Lalmahomed, Ben de Jong, Doli Goswami, Bart J. M. Vlaminckx, Dilruba Ahmed, Bartelt M. de Jongh, Hubert P. Endtz, W. Abdullah Brooks and Ger T. Rijkers
    Citation: Pneumonia 2024 16:29
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  3. The 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-13) was introduced in Malawi in 2011 with an expected impact of reducing pneumococcal pneumonia in children. We aimed to describe clinical characteristics and ...

    Authors: Grace Mzumara, James Chirombo, Todd D. Swarthout, Naor Bar-Zeev, Philliness Prisca Harawa, Mohamed Sanusi Jalloh, Amir Kirolos, Victoria Mukhula, Laura Newberry, Olawale Ogunlade, Richard Wachepa, Neil French, Robert S. Heyderman and Pui-Ying Iroh Tam
    Citation: Pneumonia 2024 16:23
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Pneumonia 2025 17:11

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles, Data Notes, Case Reports, Study Protocols, and Database Articles.

Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a collection, please select "Which children still die from pneumonia" from the dropdown menu. 

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.