作者
Nicholas A Feasey, Clemens Masesa, Chikondi Jassi, E Brian Faragher, Jane Mallewa, Macpherson Mallewa, Calman A MacLennan, Chisomo Msefula, Robert S Heyderman, Melita A Gordon
发表日期
2015/11/1
期刊
Clinical Infectious Diseases
卷号
61
期号
suppl_4
页码范围
S363-S371
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Background. The Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (MLW) has routinely collected specimens for blood culture from febrile patients, and cerebrospinal fluid from patients with suspected meningitis, presenting to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), Blantyre, Malawi, since 1998.
Methods. We present bloodstream infection (BSI) and meningitis surveillance data from 1998 to 2014. Automated blood culture, manual speciation, serotyping, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing were performed at MLW. Population data for minimum-incidence estimates in urban Blantyre were drawn from published estimates.
Results. Between 1998 and 2014, 167 028 blood cultures were taken from adult and pediatric medical patients presenting to QECH; Salmonella Typhi was isolated on 2054 occasions (1.2%) and …
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