Frequency of Pathogenic Paediatric Bacterial Meningitis in Mozambique: The Critical Role of Multiplex Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction to Estimate the Burden of Disease

BACKGROUND: In Sub-Saharan Africa, including Mozambique, acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) represents a main cause of childhood mortality. The burden of ABM is seriously underestimated because of the poor performance of culture sampling, the primary method of ABM surveillance in the region. Low quali...

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Autores principales: Nhantumbo, Aquino Albino, Cantarelli, Vlademir Vicente, Caireão, Juliana, Munguambe, Alcides Moniz, Comé, Charlotte Elizabeth, Pinto, Gabriela do Carmo, Zimba, Tomás Francisco, Mandomando, Inácio, Semá, Cynthia Baltazar, Dias, Cícero, Moraes, Milton Ozório, Gudo, Eduardo Samo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26393933
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138249

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