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Kentigern Thorburn
Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital
Publications - 33
Citations - 1142
Kentigern Thorburn is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Intensive care & Bronchiolitis. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 32 publications receiving 1016 citations.
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High incidence of pulmonary bacterial co‐infection in children with severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis
TL;DR: Up to 40% of children with severe RSV bronchiolitis requiring admission to the PICU were infected with bacteria in their lower airways and were at increased risk for bacterial pneumonia.
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Pre-existing disease is associated with a significantly higher risk of death in severe respiratory syncytial virus infection
TL;DR: Pre-existing disease/comorbidity, in particular multiple pre-existing diseases and cardiac anomaly, is associated with a significantly higher risk of death from severe RSV infection.
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Global respiratory syncytial virus-associated mortality in young children (RSV GOLD): a retrospective case series
Nienke M Scheltema,Angela Gentile,Florencia Lución,D. James Nokes,D. James Nokes,Patrick K. Munywoki,Patrick K. Munywoki,Shabir A. Madhi,Michelle J. Groome,Cheryl Cohen,Jocelyn Moyes,Kentigern Thorburn,Somsak Thamthitiwat,Hitoshi Oshitani,Socorro Lupisan,Aubree Gordon,José F Sánchez,Katherine L. O'Brien,Bradford D. Gessner,Agustinus Sutanto,Asuncion Mejias,Asuncion Mejias,Octavio Ramilo,Octavio Ramilo,Najwa Khuri-Bulos,Natasha B. Halasa,Fernanda de-Paris,Márcia Rosane Pires,Michael C. Spaeder,Bosco Paes,Eric A. F. Simões,Ting Fan Leung,Maria Tereza da Costa Oliveira,Carla Cecília de Freitas Lázaro Emediato,Quique Bassat,Warwick Butt,Warwick Butt,Hsin Chi,Uzma Bashir Aamir,Asad Ali,Marilla G. Lucero,Rodrigo Fasce,Olga Lopez,Barbara Rath,Fernando P. Polack,Jesse Papenburg,Srđan Roglić,Hisato Ito,Edward Goka,Diederick E. Grobbee,Harish Nair,Louis Bont +51 more
TL;DR: The results show that perinatal immunisation strategies for children aged younger than 6 months could have a substantial impact on RSV-related child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries.
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Mortality in severe meningococcal disease
TL;DR: Compared with older studies and calibrating for disease severity, this study found a decrease in the mortality of critically ill children with meningococcal disease.
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RSV outbreak in a paediatric intensive care unit.
TL;DR: A major outbreak of nosocomial (acquired) RSV infection on the PICU during a RSV season is reported andDroplet precautions rather than the physical barrier of the cubicle itself played a more important role in curtailing nosocomials spread.