Frequency of Pathogenic Paediatric Bacterial Meningitis in Mozambique: The Critical Role of Multiplex Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction to Estimate the Burden of Disease
PLos ONE; 10 (9), 2015
Background: In Sub-Saharan Africa, including Mozambique, acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) represents a main cause of childhood mortality. The burden of ABM is seriously underestimated because of the poor performance of culture sampling, the primary method of ABM surveillance in the region. Low quality ce...
Streptococcus agalactiae/crescimento & desenvolvimento, Streptococcus pneumoniae/crescimento & desenvolvimento, Neisseria meningitidis/ultraestrutura, Análise Multivariada, Haemophilus influenzae/imunologia, Moçambique, Transtornos Traumáticos Cumulativos/diagnóstico, Transtornos Traumáticos Cumulativos/prevenção & controle