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Incidence and Characteristics of Bacteremia among Children in Rural Ghana

The objective of the study was to describe systemic bacterial infections occurring in acutely ill and hospitalized children in a rural region in Ghana, regarding frequency, incidence, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and associations with anthropometrical data. Blood cultures were performed in...

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Autores principales:	Nielsen, Maja Verena, Sarpong, Nimako, Krumkamp, Ralf, Dekker, Denise, Loag, Wibke, Amemasor, Solomon, Agyekum, Alex, Marks, Florian, Huenger, Frank, Krefis, Anne Caroline, Hagen, Ralf Matthias, Adu-Sarkodie, Yaw, May, Jürgen, Schwarz, Norbert Georg
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2012
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3438186/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22970162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044063

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