The burden of vaccine-preventable invasive bacterial infections and pneumonia in children admitted to hospital in urban Nepal

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kelly, Dominic F ^a   Thorson, Stephen ^b   Maskey, Mitu ^b   Mahat, Sandeep ^b   Shrestha, Umesh ^b   Hamaluba, Mainga ^a   Williams, Eleri ^a   Dongol, Sabina ^b   Werno, Anja M ^c,d   Portess, Howard ^e   Yadav, Bharat K ^b   Adhikari, Neelam ^b   Guiver, Malcolm ^f   Thomas, Kurien ^g   Murdoch, David R ^c,d   Pollard, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PATAN HOSPITAL   (Nepal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^e JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^g CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Bacterial; Children; Meningitis; Pneumonia; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HAEMOPHILUS MENINGITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPAL; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTICEMIA; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TYPHOID FEVER; URBAN AREA;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEPAL; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI A; SALMONELLA TYPHI; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 78650874808     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2010.05.021     Document Type: Article

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