A prospective study of community-acquired bloodstream infections among febrile adults admitted to Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 484-489

  Ssali, Francis N ^a   Kamya, Moses R ^a,c   Wabwire Mangen, Fred ^a   Kasasa, Simon ^a   Joloba, Moses ^a,c   Williams, Donna ^c   Mugerwa, Roy D ^a,c   Ellner, Jerrold J ^b,c   Johnson, John L ^b,c  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Fever; HIV; Mycobacteremia; Mycobacterium avium complex; Mycobacterium simiae; Salmonella; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTICEMIA; SEROCONVERSION; TUBERCULOSIS; UGANDA;

BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PNEUMOCOCCUS; RNA VIRUSES; SALMONELLA; SIMIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032535323     PISSN: 10779450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042560-199812150-00007     Document Type: Article

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