Should first-line empiric treatment strategies cover coagulase-negative staphylococcal infections in severely malnourished or HIV-infected children in Kenya?

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Published in PLoS One on August 07, 2017

Authors

Christina W Obiero1,2, Anna C Seale1,2, Kelsey Jones1,3, Moses Ngari1, Charlotte L Bendon4, Susan Morpeth1,5, Shebe Mohammed1, Neema Mturi1, Greg Fegan1,2, James A Berkley1,2

Author Affiliations

1: Clinical Research Department, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya.
2: Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
3: Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
4: Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
5: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

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