Bacteraemia in patients admitted to an urban hospital in West Africa

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hill, Philip C ^a   Onyeama, Charles O ^a   Ikumapayi, Usman N A ^a   Secka, Ousman ^a   Ameyaw, Samuel ^a   Simmonds, Naomi ^b   Donkor, Simon A ^c   Howie, Stephen R ^a   Tapgun, Mary ^a   Corrah, Tumani ^a   Adegbola, Richard A ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ACINETOBACTER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; KLEBSIELLA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEUS; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GAMBIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33846902318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-2     Document Type: Article

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