Community-acquired bloodstream infections in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Data on the prevalence and causes of community-acquired bloodstream infections in Africa are scarce. We searched three databases for studies that prospectively studied patients admitted to hospital with at least a blood culture, and found 22 eligible studies describing 58 296 patients, of whom 2051 …
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Authors Reddy EA;Shaw AV;Crump JA;;
Journal The Lancet. Infectious Diseases
Year 2010
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systematic review meta-analysis National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE review animals humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine research support non-u.s. gov't adult N.I.H. Extramural young adult Child preschool Bacteria / isolation & purification* bacteremia / mortality community-acquired infections / epidemiology* prevalence community-acquired infections / microbiology* bacteremia / epidemiology* bacteria / classification* bacteremia / microbiology* community-acquired infections / mortality africa / epidemiology pmid:20510282 pmc3168734 doi:10.1016/s1473-3099(10)70072-4 elizabeth a reddy andrea v shaw john a crump

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