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- Community-acquired pneumonia
- severe pneumonia
- complicated pneumonia
- childhood
- bacterial infection
- paediatric lung disease
- pneumonia
We thank Dr Das for his letter1 regarding our paper on the management of severe community-acquired pneumonia in children.2 He questions our suggestion that both Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate and pneumococcal conjugate (PCV) vaccines could be given to Asian children living in developing countries on the grounds that the incidence of infections due to Hib and the pneumococcal serotypes included in PCV is low. He also states that there is no clear demonstration that either …