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Bacteremia in Childhood Life-Threatening Infections in Urban Gambia: EUCLIDS in West Africa.

F SeckaJethro Adam HerbergI SarrS DarboeG SeyM SaidykhanM WathuoM KaforouM AntonioA RocaS M A ZamanM Cebey-LópezN P BoeddhaS PaulusD S KohlfürstM EmontsW ZenzE D CarrolR de GrootL SchlapbachF Martinon-TorresK BojangM LevinM van der FlierS T Anderson
Published in: Open forum infectious diseases (2019)
The bacteremia rate in children with suspected childhood life-threatening infectious diseases in The Gambia is high. The pattern of pathogen prevalence and antimicrobial resistance has changed over time compared with previous studies illustrating the importance of robust bacterial surveillance programs in resource-limited settings.
Keyphrases
  • antimicrobial resistance
  • infectious diseases
  • public health
  • early life
  • young adults
  • childhood cancer
  • gram negative
  • risk factors
  • pulmonary embolism
  • candida albicans
  • multidrug resistant
  • case control