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Blood culture collection technique and pneumococcal surveillance in Malawi during the four year period 2003–2006: an observational study

BACKGROUND: Blood culture surveillance will be used for assessing the public health effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in Africa. Between 2003 and 2006 we assessed blood culture outcome and performance in adult patients in the central public hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, before and aft...

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Autores principales: Mtunthama, Neema, Gordon, Stephen B, Kusimbwe, Temwa, Zijlstra, Eduard E, Molyneux, Malcolm E, French, Neil
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2576305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18854024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-8-137