Meningitis and pneumonia in Guatemalan children

The importance of Haemophilus influenzae type b and Streptococcus pneumoniae

Bibliographic Data

ID14967356
AuthorsEdwin J Asturias (0000-0002-1275-0787, corresponding author), Mónica Soto (Hospital General San Juan de Dios), Ricardo Menendez, Ricardo A Menendez (Roosevelt Hospital), Patricia Liliana Ramírez (Hospital General San Juan de Dios), Fabio Recinos, Remei Gordillo (Roosevelt Hospital), Elizabeth Holt (0000-0002-5324-6448), Neal A Halsey (Johns Hopkins University)
Year2003
Volume14
Issue6
Pages377-84
Publication date2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1020-4989 • E-ISSN: 1680-5348
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s1020-49892003001100002
PMID14769154
OpenAlexW2147480799
SCIELO_PIDS1020-49892003001100002
LanguageEN
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Improvements in case detection, culture methods, and latex agglutination for antigen detection in CSF resulted in identification of Hib and S. pneumoniae as important causes of severe disease in Guatemalan children. Using a cutoff of > 10 white blood cells per cubic millimeter in CSF would improve the sensitivity for detection of bacterial meningitis and help estimate the burden of bacterial meningitis in Guatemala and other developing countries

Antibiotics · Antigen · Biology · Case fatality rate · Conjugate vaccine · Haemophilus influenzae · Hib vaccine · Immunization · Incidence (geometry · Meningitis · Pneumonia · Streptococcus pneumoniae · Bacterial Infections and Vaccines · Medicine · Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections · Respiratory viral infections research · Epidemiology · Immunology · Internal Medicine · Microbiology · Pediatrics

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