Bacterial isolates from blood cultures of children with suspected septicaemia in Calabar, Nigeria

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Meremikwu, Martin M ^a   Nwachukwu, Chukwuemeka E ^a   Asuquo, Anne E ^a   Okebe, Joseph U ^a   Utsalo, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MACROLIDE;

ADOLESCENT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FEVER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WARD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTEREMIA; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NIGERIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 29244479507     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-5-110     Document Type: Article

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