Incidence of clinically significant bacteraemia in children who present to hospital in Kenya: community-based observational study.

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Published in Lancet on February 11, 2006

Authors

A J Brent1, I Ahmed, M Ndiritu, P Lewa, C Ngetsa, B Lowe, E Bauni, M English, J A Berkley, J A G Scott

Author Affiliations

1: Wellcome Trust/KEMRI Centre for Geographic Medicine Research, Coast, PO Box 230, Kilifi, Kenya. andrew_brent@doctors.org.uk

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