pneumonia presentation, postgraduate training in clinical pediatric medicine. ref: Nelson textbook of pediatrics. Detailed presentation on pneumonia in pediatrics with etiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, investigation and management. Also advances in pneumonia.

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5. Pneumonia is the leading infectious killer of children worldwide, as shown by this illustration of global distribution of cause-
specific infectious mortality among children younger than age 5 yr in 2015. Pneumonia causes one-third of all under-5 deaths
from infection. (FromWorld Health Organization and Maternal and Child Epidemiology Estimation Group estimates, 2015.)