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Nosocomial outbreak of neonatal Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis meningitis in a rural hospital in northern Tanzania.
BMC infectious diseases - 14 Sept 2004
Vaagland Hogne, Blomberg Bjørn, Krüger Carsten, Naman Naftali, Jureen Roland, Langeland Nina
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Clinicians at Haydom Lutheran Hospital, a rural hospital in northern Tanzania noted an unusually high case-fatality rate of pediatric meningitis and suspected an outbreak of an unknown agent or an organism resistant to the empirical therapy. METHODS: We established a provisional micro...
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