Etiology of bacteremia in young infants in six countries

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages e1-e8

  Hamer, Davidson H ^a,b,c   Darmstadt, Gary L ^d   Carlin, John B ^e,s   Zaidi, Anita K M ^f,g,q   Yeboah Antwi, Kojo ^a,b,q   Saha, Samir K ^g,q   Ray, Pallab ^h,q   Narang, Anil ^h,q   Mazzi, Eduardo ^i,r   Kumar, Praveen ^h,q   Kapil, Arti ^j,q   Jeena, Prakash M ^k,q   Deorari, Ashok ^j   Chowdury, A K Azad ^l   Bartos, Andres ^m,r   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^f,n,q   Adu Sarkodie, Yaw ^o,q   Adhikari, Miriam ^k,q   Addo Yobo, Emmanuel ^o   Weber, Martin W ^p   Azad Chowdhury, A K ^q   Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, A S M ^q   Hossain, Md Monir ^q   Nahar, Nazmun ^q   Baidya, Amala ^q   Parul, Mahmuda ^q   Islam, Maksuda ^q   Nasreen, Tania ^q   Rahaman, Md Rezaur ^q   Villagomez, Teresa ^r   Mattos, Pablo ^r   Ludueña, Manuel Pantoja ^r   Zumarán, Remedios ^r   Quispe, Irma ^r   Tarqui, Willy ^r   Checa, Lourdes ^r   Canqui, Claudia ^r   Dueñas, Erick ^r   Vargas, Omar ^r   Yobo, Emmanuel Addo ^q   Plange Rhule, G ^q   Akoto, Osei ^q   Lartey, M ^q   Akpene, Henrietta ^q   Narang, Rupinder ^q   Muley, Prasad ^q   Misra, Satish ^q   Tapasaya, Rani Sanjay ^q   Gaur, Tamanna ^q   Kanojia, Vishal ^q   Dogra, Ajay ^q   Chellani, Harish ^q   Prasad, M S ^q   Satyavani, A ^q   John, Jyoti Raji ^q   Negi, Sanjeev ^q   Singhal, Narinder ^q   Sunder, Shiyam ^q   Sultana, Shazia ^q   Azeem, Shazia ^q   Lasi, Razzaq ^q   Abbasi, Farrukh ^q   Sultana, Razia ^q   Jabbar, Nasira A ^q   Hasan, Rumina ^q   Rizvi, Arjumand ^q   Thaver, Durrane ^q   Mojaphelo, Sister ^q   Sturm, Wim ^q   Sikhakhane , Precious ^q   Bahl, Rajiv ^q   Mulholland, Kim ^q   Paul, Vinod ^q   Simoes, Eric ^q   Zupan, Jelka ^q   Greenwood, Philip ^e   Chionh, Claudine ^e   more..

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^g Child Health Research Foundation   (Bangladesh)

^h POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

ⁱ Department of Pediatrics Hospital del Nino Dr Ovidio Aliaga Uria La Paz   (United States)

^j ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^k UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^l DHAKA SHISHU HOSPITAL   (Bangladesh)

^m Hospital Materno Infantil   (Bolivia)

ⁿ Sick Kids Center for Global Child Health   (Canada)

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

^p WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^q World Health Organization ^*

^r Murdoch Children's Research Institute ^*  (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

more..

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Infant; Neonatal sepsis; Neonate; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BANGLADESH; BLOOD CULTURE; BOLIVIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GHANA; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZED INFANT; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SOUTH AFRICA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DRUG EFFECTS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 84926177156     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000549     Document Type: Article

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