Correlation of clinical outcomes with multiplex molecular testing of stool from children admitted to hospital with gastroenteritis in Botswana

Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 312-318

  Pernica, Jeffrey M ^a   Steenhoff, Andrew P ^b,c   Welch, Henry ^d   Mokomane, Margaret ^e   Quaye, Isaac ^f   Arscott Mills, Tonya ^b   Mazhani, Loeto ^g   Lechiile, Kwana ^b   Mahony, James ^a   Smieja, Marek ^a   Goldfarb, David M ^a,b,g,h  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BOTSWANA UPENN PARTNERSHIP   (Botswana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^e National Health Laboratory   (Botswana)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA   (Namibia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Dysentery; Gastroenteritis; Polymerase chain reaction; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BOTSWANA; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIROLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BOTSWANA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84995554321     PISSN: 20487193     EISSN: 20487207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piv028     Document Type: Article

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