Managing severe infection in infancy in resource poor settings

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Reducing childhood mortality in resource-poor regions depends on effective interventions to decrease neonatal mortality from severe infection, which contributes up to a half of all neonatal deaths. There are key differences in resource-poor, compared to resource-rich, countries in terms of diagnosis, supportive care and treatment. In resource-poor settings, diagnosis is based on identifying clinical syndromes from international guidelines; microbiological investigations are restricted to a fe...

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Authors: Seale, A; Berkley, J

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: ELSEVIER
• Journal: Early Human Development
• Volume: 88
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 957-960
• Event title: Neonatal Update 2012
• Event start date: 2012-12-03
• DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2012.09.005
• ISSN: 0378-3782
• Keywords: newborn; resource-poor; sepsis; Infant; infection; neonatal