Systemic bacteraemia in children presenting with clinical pneumonia and the impact of non-typhoid salmonella (NTS)

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Schwarz, Norbert G ^a   Sarpong, Nimako ^b   Hünger, Frank ^b   Marks, Florian ^c   Acquah, Samuel E K ^b   Agyekum, Alex ^b   Nkrumah, Bernard ^b   Loag, Wibke ^a   Hagen, Ralf M ^a   Evans, Jennifer A ^d   Dekker, Denise ^b   Fobil, Julius N ^a   Meyer, Christian G ^a   May, Jürgen ^a   Adu Sarkodie, Yaw ^e  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^c International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^e KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPENICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GHANA; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON-TYPHOID SALMONELLA; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RURAL AREA; SALMONELLA; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYMPTOM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SALMONELLOSIS;

BACTEREMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMONIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS;

EID: 78049363415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-319     Document Type: Article

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