Bacteriology of community-acquired invasive disease found in a multicountry prospective, population-based, epidemiological surveillance for pneumococcus in children in Latin America

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1312-1314

  Andrade, Ana Lucia ^a   Arguedas, Adriano ^b,c   Benavides, Juan ^d   Minamisava, Ruth ^a   De Brandileone, Maria Cristina Cunto ^e   Soley, Carolina ^b   Abdelnour, Arturo ^b,c   Jimenez, Ana Laura ^f   Jimenez, Elias ^b   Gray, Sharon ^g   Rodgers, Gail L ^g  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Atencion Pediatrica Costa Rica   (Costa Rica)

^c Universidad de Ciencias Medicas   (Costa Rica)

^d Centro Nacional de Consultoría   (Colombia)

^e INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^f CAJA COSTARRICENSE DE SEGURO SOCIAL   (Costa Rica)

^g PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriology; Children; Community acquired invasive bacterial disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD; BODY FLUIDS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84870880001     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31826a8ee5     Document Type: Article

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