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Invasive bacterial infections in neonates and young infants born outside hospital admitted to a rural hospital in Kenya.
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BACKGROUND: Bacterial sepsis is thought to be a major cause of young infant deaths in low-income countries, but there are few precise estimates of its burden or causes. We studied invasive bacterial infections (IBIs) in young infants, born at home or in first-level health units ("outborn") who were admitted to a Kenyan rural district hospital during an 8-year period. METHODS: Clinical and microbiologic data, from admission blood cultures and cerebrospinal fluid cultures on all outborn infant...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Pediatric infectious disease journal
- Volume:
- 29
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- 945-949
- Publication date:
- 2010-10-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1532-0987
- ISSN:
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0891-3668
- Source identifiers:
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66510
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- English
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pubs:66510
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- pubs:66510
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2010
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