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cord-326004-wg47sd06	Wilson, Patrick T	Respiratory Pathogens in Children 1 Month to 5 Years of Age Presenting With Undifferentiated Acute Respiratory Distress in 2 District-Level Hospitals in Ghana	2018-09-03		.txt	text/plain	2193	103	48	A recently conducted prospective randomized controlled trial at 2 district-level hospitals in Ghana revealed that the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) reduces the allcause mortality rate in children <1 year old who presented with undifferentiated acute respiratory distress [3] . In that study, nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from the children at the time of presentation and tested for common pediatric respiratory pathogens; the goal was to decrease the knowledge gap regarding the incidence of respiratory pathogens that affect children <5 years of age in low-and middle-income countries. In this report, we describe the respiratory pathogens detected in children aged 1 month to 5 years who presented to 1 of 2 district-level hospitals in Ghana with undifferentiated acute respiratory distress. Despite the limitations of this study, our results show that viral respiratory pathogens were frequent among children aged 1 month to 5 years who presented with acute respiratory distress to 1 of 2 district-level hospitals in Ghana.	./cache/cord-326004-wg47sd06.txt	./txt/cord-326004-wg47sd06.txt