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Publikováno v:
The Lancet. 346:1252-1257
Pneumococci are a leading cause of severe bacterial disease in infants and children world wide. A possible means of protecting infants in the first few months of life is immunisation of the mother during pregnancy. We prospectively assessed pneumococ
Publikováno v:
The Indian journal of medical research. 113
meningitis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae is common among children and adults. In this study a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for diagnosis of pneumococcal meningitis was evaluated prospectively.a total of 61 cerebrospinal fluid specimens were incl
Autor:
S, Minz, V, Balraj, M K, Lalitha, N, Murali, T, Cherian, G, Manoharan, S, Kadirvan, A, Joseph, M C, Steinhoff
Publikováno v:
The Indian journal of medical research. 128(1)
Vaccine policy depends on locally relevant disease burden estimates. The incidence of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease is not well characterized in the South Asian region, home to 30 per cent of the world's children. There are limited data
Publikováno v:
Journal of health, population, and nutrition. 18(3)
Using age and cause-specific childhood mortality in Lombok, Indonesia, as a factor for determining the appropriateness of introducing Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and pneumococcal vaccines, the study describes a cross-sectional, hamlet-level m
Publikováno v:
Journal of tropical pediatrics. 46(6)
To determine whether persistent rhinorrhoea constitutes a significant problem requiring intervention, 17 rural day care centres (Balwadis) in Tamilnadu, India, were visited. Among 414 children in the Balwadis 92 (22 per cent) children with persistent
Publikováno v:
Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 79(1)
OBJECTIVE: The preservation of Streptococcus pneumoniae by standard freezing methods for subsequent tests--such as serotyping and antibiotic susceptibility--is not possible or is difficult in many developing countries because of the high cost of equi
Publikováno v:
The Indian journal of medical research. 110
Prior to 1995 all strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated at a tertiary care hospital in south India were uniformly susceptible to penicillin. However, since late 1995 strains of S. pneumoniae with intermediate resistance to penicillin have been
Autor:
M C, Steinhoff
Publikováno v:
The Pediatric infectious disease journal. 17
To determine the frequency, clinical characteristics and outcome of acute invasive infections caused by Haemophilus influenzae.Prospective hospital-based surveillance.Six large academic referral hospitals in India.Three thousand four hundred forty-on
Publikováno v:
The Indian journal of medical research. 106
A commercial E test was compared with the standard agar dilution method for the determination of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of penicillin, erythromycin, chloramphenicol and cefotaxime for 36 strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae from patien
Autor:
T J, John, R, Pai, M K, Lalitha, M V, Jesudason, K N, Brahmadathan, G, Sridharan, M C, Steinhoff
Publikováno v:
The Indian journal of medical research. 104
Forty two pneumococcal strains obtained in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, from 42 patients with invasive diseases, namely pneumonia, meningitis, or peritonitis were typed. Over one-third of pneumococci in children and nearly half in adults were serotype follow