Commentary: Navigating symptom and diagnostic overlap in pneumonia and malaria: insights from the field from the PERCH Study

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Affiliations

¹ ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain.
² Centro Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique.
³ Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ ICREA, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Institut Clínic de Medicina I Dermatologia, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Esplugues, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.

Editorial

David Torres-Fernandez et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2025.

. 2025 Apr 12;54(3):dyaf063.

doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaf063.

David Torres-Fernandez^{1

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3}, Quique Bassat^{1

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¹ ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain.
² Centro Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique.
³ Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ ICREA, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Institut Clínic de Medicina I Dermatologia, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Esplugues, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.

No abstract available

Keywords: child mortality; children; global health; infectious diseases; malaria; misclassification; paediatric; pneumonia.

Comment on

Misclassification of malaria as pneumonia in children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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