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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Berkley, James A
• Lowe, Brett S
• Mwangi, Isaiah
• Williams, Thomas
• Bauni, Evasius
• Mwarumba, Saleem
• Ngetsa, Caroline
• Slack, Mary P.E
• Njenga, Sally
• Hart, C. Anthony
• Maitland, Kathryn
• English, Mike
• Marsh, Kevin
• Scott, J. Anthony G

Titel

Bacteremia among Children Admitted to a Rural Hospital in Kenya

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2005-01, Vol.352 (1), p.39-47

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• At a rural district hospital in Kenya, nearly 13 percent of infants were found to have bacteremia on admission, as were nearly 6 percent of all children who were 60 or more days of age. Of all the deaths in the hospital, 26 percent were among infants and children with community-acquired bacteremia. At a rural hospital in Kenya, nearly 13 percent of infants were found to have bacteremia on admission. Of all the deaths in the hospital, 26 percent were among infants and children with bacteremia. Each year in sub-Saharan Africa, 4.6 million children die before reaching the age of five years, 1 and the vast majority of these deaths are not fully investigated. Most health facilities lack the resources for doing microbiologic studies, so the data on invasive bacterial infections are very limited. The local incidence of infections such as meningitis and pneumonia has been estimated, often in relation to vaccine studies. 2 However, there are almost no estimates of incidence, mortality, or hospital burden for the majority of pathogenic bacterial species. Most data are from a few urban referral centers, 3 – 9 with very little recent data . . .