Incidence and Characteristics of Bacteremia among Children in Rural Ghana

Maja Verena Nielsen; Nimako Sarpong; Ralf Krumkamp; Denise Dekker; Wibke Loag; Solomon Amemasor; Alex Agyekum; Florian Marks; Frank Huenger; Anne Caroline Krefis; Ralf Matthias Hagen; Yaw Adu-Sarkodie; Jürgen May; Norbert Georg Schwarz

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044063

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Incidence and Characteristics of Bacteremia among Children in Rural Ghana

Maja Verena Nielsen ,

* E-mail: maja.v.nielsen@googlemail.com

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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Nimako Sarpong,

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana
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Ralf Krumkamp,

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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Denise Dekker,

Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana
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Wibke Loag,

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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Solomon Amemasor,

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana
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Alex Agyekum,

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana
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Florian Marks,

Affiliation International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea
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Frank Huenger,

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana, Institute for Transfusion Medicine, Laboratory Medicine and Medical Microbiology, Dortmund, Germany
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Anne Caroline Krefis,

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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Ralf Matthias Hagen,

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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Yaw Adu-Sarkodie,

Affiliation Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, School of Medical Sciences, Kumasi, Ghana
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Jürgen May,

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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Norbert Georg Schwarz

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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Incidence and Characteristics of Bacteremia among Children in Rural Ghana

Maja Verena Nielsen,
Nimako Sarpong,
Ralf Krumkamp,
Denise Dekker,
Wibke Loag,
Solomon Amemasor,
Alex Agyekum,
Florian Marks,
Frank Huenger,
Anne Caroline Krefis

Published: September 10, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044063

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