Invasive pneumococcal disease in children aged <5 years admitted to 3 urban hospitals in Ibadan, Nigeria

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages

  Falade, A G ^a   Lagunju, I A ^a   Bakare, R A ^a   Odekanmi, A A ^a   Adegbola, R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NIGERIA; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SALMONELLA; SEPTICEMIA; SEROTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NIGERIA; PENICILLINS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 61849172864     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/596500     Document Type: Article

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