Invasive pneumococcal disease in Kanti Children's Hospital, Nepal, as Observed by the South Asian Pneumococcal Alliance Network

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages

  Shah, Aparna Singh ^a   Deloria Knoll, M ^b   Sharma, P R ^a   Moisi, J C ^b   Kulkarni, P ^b   Lalitha, M K ^c   Steinhoff, M ^b   Thomas, K ^c  

^a TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS MENINGITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEPAL; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; SOUTH ASIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEPAL; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 61849161596     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/596490     Document Type: Article

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