Antimicrobial resistance predicts death in Tanzanian children with bloodstream infections: a prospective cohort study
Open Access
- 22 May 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 7 (1), 43
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-7-43
Abstract
Bloodstream infection is a common cause of hospitalization, morbidity and death in children. The impact of antimicrobial resistance and HIV infection on outcome is not firmly established.Keywords
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