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Severe malaria and concomitant bacteraemia in children admitted to a rural Mozambican hospital

Bassat, quique; Mandomando, inácio; Sigaúque, betuel; Guinovart, caterina; Aide, pedro; Sacarlal, Jahit; Nhampossa, tacilta; Bardají, azucena; Morais, luís; Machevo, Sonia; Letang, emilio; Macete, eusébio; Aponte, john J; Alonso, pedro l; Menéndez, clara; Roca, anna.

Trop. med. int. health; 14 (9), 2009

Objectives: To describe the prevalence, aetiology and prognostic implications of coexisting invasive bacterial disease in children admitted with severe malaria in a rural Mozambican Hospital. Methods: Retrospective study of data systematically collected from June 2003 to May 2007 in a rural Mozambican ho...

Bacteremia/complications, Bacteremia/microbiology, Bacteremia/epidemiology, Bacteremia/metabolism, Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections/epidemiology, Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections/mortality, Malaria/epidemiology, Malaria/complications, Mozambique

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Malaria in pregnancy in rural Mozambique: the role of parity, submicroscopic and multiple Plasmodium falciparum infections

Background: Falciparum malaria affects pregnant women, especially primigravidae, but before malaria control programmes targeted to them can be designed, a description of the frequency and parity pattern of the infection is needed. There is little information on the frequency and effect of submicroscopic ...