Current Statsu of Acute Respiratoly Infections in Children under Five Years of Age in Nairobi, Kenya

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  • ケニア共和国ナイロビ市における小児急性呼吸器感染症の現状
  • ケニア キョウワコク ナイロビシ ニ オケル ショウニ キュウセイ コキュウキ

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Two hundreds and twenty-six children under five years of age with pneumonia were recruited from an urban poor area in Nairobi, Kenya, and examined for pathogens for 1 year from February 1997.<BR>One hundred and twenty-eight of the 226 patients were pathogen-positive cases. The patients under 1-year-old were 61.8% of the pathogen-positive cases. A total 192 organisms were isolated from 128 pathogen-positive patients. Streptococcus pneumoniae had the highest prevalence rate of 31.3%, followed by respiratory syncytial virus with 10.4%, Candida albicans with 9.9%, Moraxella (B) catarrhalis with 7.8%.<BR>In S. pneumoniae, 66.7% of the orgamism was resistant to oxacillin. It was also shown that 51.1% and 65.1% of the S. pneumoniae strains were resistant to gentamicin and trimethoprim/sulfam, respectively. From these results, it is clear that a lot of multi-drug resistant S. pneumoniae strains including penicillin-resistant S. pneumoniae were frequently detected in an urban poor area.

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  • Kansenshogaku Zasshi

    Kansenshogaku Zasshi 72 (12), 1289-1294, 1998

    The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases

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