Bacterial Meningitis in Children With Sickle Cell Disease in Angola
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Pelkonen , T , Roine , I , Bernardino , L , Jahnukainen , K & Peltola , H 2022 , ' Bacterial Meningitis in Children With Sickle Cell Disease in Angola ' , Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal , vol. 41 , no. 8 , pp. E335-E338 . https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0000000000003581
| Title: | Bacterial Meningitis in Children With Sickle Cell Disease in Angola |
| Author: | Pelkonen, Tuula; Roine, Irmeli; Bernardino, Luis; Jahnukainen, Kirsi; Peltola, Heikki |
| Contributor organization: | HUS Children and Adolescents Children's Hospital University of Helsinki Lastentautien yksikkö |
| Date: | 2022-08-01 |
| Language: | eng |
| Number of pages: | 4 |
| Belongs to series: | Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal |
| ISSN: | 0891-3668 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0000000000003581 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/346687 |
| Abstract: | Sickle cell disease (SCD) was found in 10% of children with bacterial meningitis (BM) in Luanda, 5-fold more than in the general population. BM children with SCD versus BM children without SCD had higher inflammatory markers, more often had pneumococcal meningitis (71% vs. 39%), and either died (39% vs. 22%) or had a longer hospital stay (15 vs. 11 days). |
| Description: | Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). |
| Subject: |
Africa
child meningitis outcome sickle cell disease 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Rights: | cc_by_nc_nd |
| Usage restriction: | openAccess |
| Self-archived version: | publishedVersion |
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