Bloodstream infection among children presenting to a general hospital outpatient clinic in urban Nepal.

Bloodstream infection among children presenting to a general hospital outpatient clinic in urban Nepal.

BACKGROUND: There are limited data on the etiology and characteristics of bloodstream infections in children presenting in hospital outpatient settings in South Asia. Previous studies in Nepal have highlighted the importance of murine typhus as a cause of febrile illness in adults and enteric fever...

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Main Authors: Rahul Pradhan, Umesh Shrestha, Samir C Gautam, Stephen Thorson, Kabindra Shrestha, Bharat K Yadav, Dominic F Kelly, Neelam Adhikari, Andrew J Pollard, David R Murdoch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3480362?pdf=render

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