Contribution of urinary tract infection to the burden of febrile illnesses in young children in rural Kenya

The clinical features of UTI in young children may not localize to the urinary tract and closely resemble other febrile illnesses. In malaria endemic areas, a child presenting with fever is often treated presumptively for malaria without investigation for UTI. Delayed or inadequate treatment of UTI...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2017-03, Vol.12 (3), p.e0174199
Hauptverfasser:	Masika, Wechuli Geoffrey, O'Meara, Wendy Prudhomme, Holland, Thomas L, Armstrong, Janice
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Amoxicillin Ampicillin Antibiotics Antimicrobial agents Bacteremia Bacteriuria - microbiology Biology and Life Sciences Care and treatment Ceftriaxone Cefuroxime Child, Preschool Children Complications Cotrimoxazole Cross-Sectional Studies Diagnosis Drug resistance E coli Escherichia coli Escherichia coli - drug effects Escherichia coli - isolation & purification Families & family life Female Fever Fever - diagnosis Fever - drug therapy Fever - epidemiology Fever - microbiology Gentamicin Health facilities Hospitals Humans Hypertension Illnesses Infant Infections Kenya - epidemiology Kidney transplantation Malaria Malaria - diagnosis Malaria - drug therapy Male Medicine Medicine and Health Sciences Microbial Sensitivity Tests Microscopy Multidrug resistance Nitrofurantoin Pediatrics People and Places Public health Pyuria Research and Analysis Methods Risk factors Sample size Scars Staphylococcus aureus Staphylococcus aureus - drug effects Staphylococcus aureus - isolation & purification Studies Urinary tract Urinary tract diseases Urinary tract infections Urinary Tract Infections - diagnosis Urinary Tract Infections - drug therapy Urinary Tract Infections - epidemiology Urinary Tract Infections - microbiology Urine Urogenital system Vector-borne diseases
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