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Presentation of life-threatening invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella disease in Malawian children: A prospective observational study
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Nontyphoidal Salmonellae commonly cause invasive disease in African children that is often fatal. 60 The clinical diagnosis of these infections is hampered by the absence of a clear clinical syndrome. 61 Drug resistance means that empirical antibiotic therapy is often ineffective and currently no vaccine 62 is available. The study objective was to identify risk factors for mortality among children presenting 63 to hospital with invasive Salmonella disease in Africa. We conducted a prospect...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- e0006027
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-10
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- EISSN:
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1935-2735
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pubs:736836
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- pubs:736836
- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-17
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- MacLennan et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © 2017 MacLennan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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