Neonatal nitrition and later outcomes of very low birth weight infants at Kenyatta National Hospital
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2007-06Author
Were, FN
Bwibo, NO
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A total of 296 episodes of bacteremia due to Enterobacter occurred in 281 patients with cancer between 1972 and 1986. The majority of these episodes were caused by Enterobacter cloacae. Seventy-four percent of the patients developed their infection while in the hospital and 55% had received therapeutic antibiotics during the 10 days preceding the onset of the infection. Enterobacter bacteremia was associated with shock in 24% of the patients and with disseminated intravascular coagulation in only 3%. The overall rate of response to therapy was 79% and increased to 85% during the last 5-year period. Only five patients remained febrile during their infection, but four of these five died. Only 37% of the patients with shock responded to therapy compared with 93% of the patients without shock. The rate of response to therapy was 86% among patients without pulmonary infection compared with only 53% among those with pulmonary infection. The response rate to therapy with a single antibiotic was 73% and that to therapy with two antibiotics was 85%. As single therapeutic agents aminoglycosides were less effective than beta-lactam agents
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1925270http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/57416
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Afr Health Sci. 2007 Jun;7 (2) :108-14Publisher
University of Nairobi
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