Etiologies of illness among patients meeting Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness District Clinician Manual criteria for severe infections in northern Tanzania: Implications for empiric antimicrobial therapy

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 454-462

  Rubach, Matthew P ^a   Maro, Venance P ^b   Bartlett, John A ^c   Crump, John A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; GENTAMICIN; MACROLIDE; TETRACYCLINE; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG POTENCY; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; ICD-10; INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF ADOLESCENT AND ADULT ILLNESS DISTRICT CLINICIAN MANUAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMONIA; Q FEVER; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TANZANIA; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY; INFECTION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SHOCK, SEPTIC; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPICILLIN; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CEFTRIAXONE; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; INFECTION; MACROLIDES; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TANZANIA; TETRACYCLINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922294160     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: 14761645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0496     Document Type: Article

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