3.1. Study Participants.
During the study period,
we enrolled 420 (27.2%) children with severe pneumonia out of a total
of 1517 under-five admissions.
There was a slight male preponderance (male to female ratio was 1.2 : 1), 168 (40%)
were infants, and mean (SD) age of the recruited patients was
18.0 (13.7) months (Table 1).