Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in children under five and, a major cause of infant mortality in all regions of the world, most deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The main agent with the highest prevalence in severe pneumonia is, as the name suggests the bacterium Streptoc...
Background:Pneumonia is an acute respiratory infection caused by severe linfectious agents, such as viruses, bacteria,and fungi.It affects the lungs.T his study aimed to assess mothers’knowledge and practices regarding pneumonia inchildren under five years of age in Makambako town. The study ...
Mobio, M P;
Mouafo, E W;
Kouame, K I;
Kouame, K I;
Koffi, L;
Netro, D;
Koffi, L;
N’Jomo, K W;
N’Guessan, Y F;
Ayé, Y D.
Objectifs : Identifier les facteurs de mauvais pronostic des pneumopathies acquises sous ventilation mécanique(PAVM) afin d’améliorer leur prise en charge.Patients et methode : Etude prospective, descriptive et analytique portant sur les patients admis en réanimation du CHU d’Angré du 1er novembr...
Pneumonia,
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated,
Klebsiella pneumoniae,
Diabetes Mellitus,
Coma,
Respiration, Artificial,
Ventilators, Mechanical,
Prognosis,
Mortality,
Critical Care
Background: Contact tracing is a traditional pillar of infectious disease control, especially for illnesses involving direct transmission from person to person, such as COVID-19. Several challenges have arisen from COVID-19 contact tracing activities, particularly in low-resource settings. These include ...
Nabawanuka, Eva;
Ameda, Faith;
Erem, Geoffrey;
Bugeza, Samuel;
Ro, Opoka;
Kiguli, Sarah;
Amorut, Denis;
Aloroker, Florence;
Olupot-Olupot, P;
Mnjalla, Hellen;
Mpoya, Ayub;
Maitland, Kathryn.
Objective To describe chest radiograph findings among children hospitalized with clinically diagnosed severe pneumonia and hypoxaemia
at three tertiary facilities in Uganda.
Methods The study involved clinical and radiograph data on a random sample of 375 children aged 28 days to 12 years enrolled in the...
Introduction: Acute Bacterial meningitis is still a major cause of death in under-five children. Surveillance on
Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis has been set up by the World Health Organization to generate data on vaccine preventable causes of Meningitis in under-five children. Ethiopia is one of the coun...
Introduction
Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) account for a substantial burden on healthcare systems, with surgical site infections being the
most common. Limited data exist on HAIs in low-resource settings, particularly device-associated HAIs. This study aimed to characterize the incidence and diffe...
Urinary Tract Infections,
Pneumonia,
Soft Tissue Infections,
Appendicitis,
General Surgery,
Diagnosis,
Surgical Wound Infection,
Equipment and Supplies,
Hospitals,
Health Resources,
Tertiary Care Centers
Saeed, Mayssa A;
Ibrahim Zaher, Tarik;
Khorshed, Soha E;
Saraya, Mohamed;
Mohamed Mahmoud, Taghrid;
Emara, Mohamed H;
Mahrous, Aya M;
Nabila Hassan, Ahmed;
Khattab, Fathia M;
Abdelmaksoud, Mona Ahmed;
Emara, Emad H;
Eldin Bekhit, Ahmed Nasr;
Khaled, Ahmad;
Mohammed, Eleda;
Fahim, Nadien K.
In late 2019, a novel coronavirus, now designated SARS-CoV-2, emerged and was identified as the cause of an outbreak of acute respiratory illness in Wuhan, a city in China, named as COVID-19. Since then the waves of the virus exponentially hit many countries around the globe with high rates of spread ass...
Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the subsequent global outbreak (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19]) was declared a public health emergency in January 2020. Recent radiologic literature regarding COVID-19 has primarily focused on Computed Tomography (CT) chest...
Background. Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of under-5 death in South Africa and accounts for a substantial burden of paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admissions. However, little is known about PICU outcomes in HIV-exposed uninfected (HIV-EU) children with pneumonia, despite the growing size...
