Etiology of pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis in infants younger than three months of age in Ethiopia

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 10 SUPPL., 1999, Pages

  Muhe, L ^a,f   Tilahun, M ^a   Lulseged, S ^a   Kebede, S ^a   Enaro, D ^b   Ringertz, S ^c   Kronvall, G ^f   Gove, S ^d,e   Mulholland, E Kim ^e  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Child and Adol Hlth and Devmt   (Switzerland)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Developing countries; Etiologic agents; Meningitis; Pneumonia; Sepsis; Young infants

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ETHIOPIA; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SALMONELLA; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ETHIOPIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGITIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0032873134     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-199910001-00010     Document Type: Article

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