Estimates of possible severe bacterial infection in neonates in sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, and Latin America for 2012: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Published in Lancet Infect Dis on June 25, 2014

Authors

Anna C Seale1, Hannah Blencowe2, Alexander A Manu2, Harish Nair3, Rajiv Bahl4, Shamim A Qazi4, Anita K Zaidi5, James A Berkley6, Simon N Cousens2, Joy E Lawn7, pSBI Investigator Group

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Centre for Geographic Medicine and Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya. Electronic address: anna.seale@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
2: Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health UK, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
3: Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India.
4: Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
5: Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
6: Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Centre for Geographic Medicine and Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya.
7: Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health UK, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Centre for Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children, Washington, DC, USA.

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