Bacteremia and malaria in Tanzanian children hospitalized for acute febrile illness

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 81-85

  Lundgren, Ingrid S ^a   Heltshe, Sonya L ^a,b   Smith, Arnold L ^a,b   Chibwana, Jerome ^c   Fried, Michal W ^d   Duffy, Patrick E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute febrile illness; Bacteremia; Malaria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; LYTA GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PAL GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TANZANIAN; GENETICS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TANZANIA;

BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TANZANIA;

EID: 84926453845     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmu069     Document Type: Article

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