Prevalence and antibiotic resistance of bacterial pathogens isolated from childhood diarrhoea in four provinces of Kenya | Zendy

Willie Sang | Zendy; Valerie Oundo | Zendy; David Schnabel | Zendy

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Prevalence and antibiotic resistance of bacterial pathogens isolated from childhood diarrhoea in four provinces of Kenya

Author(s) -

Willie Sang,

Valerie Oundo,

David Schnabel

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.2196

Subject(s) - ampicillin , antibiotic resistance , ciprofloxacin , tetracycline , shigella , trimethoprim , nalidixic acid , microbiology and biotechnology , norfloxacin , antimicrobial , drug resistance , cholera , medicine , salmonella , veterinary medicine , antibiotics , biology , bacteria , genetics

Diarrhoea is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality among children in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of the main causes of hospital admissions in rural areas of Kenya. In Kenya, antimicrobial resistance surveillance has been conducted only at the institutional levels, with limited sharing of information and analysis of data. As a result, the actual scale of regional or national antimicrobial drug resistance is not well defined.

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