Salmonella enterica infections are common causes of bloodstream infection in low-resource
areas, where they may be difficult to distinguish from other febrile illnesses and may be …

Invasive Salmonella infections (typhoidal and non-typhoidal) cause a huge burden of illness
estimated at nearly 3.4 million cases and over 600,000 deaths annually especially in …

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE Page 1 2014 ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE Global Report
on Surveillance Page 2 Page 3 2014 ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE Global Report on …

Background Aetiological data for neonatal infections are essential to inform policies and
programme strategies, but such data are scarce from sub-Saharan Africa. We therefore …

Antimicrobial resistance is an important threat to international health. Therapeutic guidelines
for empirical treatment of common life-threatening infections depend on available …

Background Little is known about the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) amongst
bacterial pathogens in sub-Saharan Africa (sSA), despite calls for continent-wide …

The most important remaining gap in our knowledge is probably an understanding of how
NTS is transmitted, and the nature of the relationship between diarrhoeal disease, carriage …

Background Sepsis is the third most common cause of death among neonates, with about
225,000 newborns dying every year globally. Data concerning the microbial etiology of …

Background Antibiotic resistance is a threat in developing countries (DCs) because of the
high burden of bacterial disease and the presence of risk factors for its emergence and …

Objective Current knowledge on the global burden of infant sepsis is limited to population-
level data. We aimed to summarize global case fatality rates (CFRs) of young infants with …