Authors
Nicholas A Feasey, Clemens Masesa, Chikondi Jassi, E Brian Faragher, Jane Mallewa, Macpherson Mallewa, Calman A MacLennan, Chisomo Msefula, Robert S Heyderman, Melita A Gordon
Publication date
2015/11/1
Journal
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Volume
61
Issue
suppl_4
Pages
S363-S371
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Description
Background. The Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (MLW) has routinely collected specimens for blood culture from febrile patients, and cerebrospinal fluid from patients with suspected meningitis, presenting to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), Blantyre, Malawi, since 1998.
Methods. We present bloodstream infection (BSI) and meningitis surveillance data from 1998 to 2014. Automated blood culture, manual speciation, serotyping, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing were performed at MLW. Population data for minimum-incidence estimates in urban Blantyre were drawn from published estimates.
Results. Between 1998 and 2014, 167 028 blood cultures were taken from adult and pediatric medical patients presenting to QECH; Salmonella Typhi was isolated on 2054 occasions (1.2%) and …
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