ArticleBMC infectious diseases2008
Blood culture collection technique and pneumococcal surveillance in Malawi during the four year period 2003-2006: an observational study.
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- Bacteremia in Childhood Life-Threatening Infections in Urban Gambia: EUCLIDS in West Africa.Open forum infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Best Practices of Blood Cultures in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Frontiers in medicine · 2019Review
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- Enhanced Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Bacteremia Using Antigen- and Molecular-Based Tools on Blood Specimens in Mali and Thailand: A Prospective Surveillance Study.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2016Article
- Three Epidemics of Invasive Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella Bloodstream Infection in Blantyre, Malawi, 1998-2014.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2015Article
- Rapid emergence of multidrug resistant, H58-lineage Salmonella typhi in Blantyre, Malawi.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2015Article
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- Pain management among medical in-patients in Blantyre, Malawi.International archives of medicine · 2009Article
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Abstract
backgroundBlood culture surveillance will be used for assessing the public health effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in Africa. Between 2003 and 2006 we assessed blood culture outcome and performance in adult patients in the central public hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, before and after the introduction of a dedicated nurse led blood culture team.
methodsA prospective observational study.
resultsFollowing the introduction of a specialised blood culture team in 2005, the proportion of contaminated cultures decreased (19.6% in 2003 to 5.0% in 2006), blood volume cultured increased and pneumococcal recovery increased significantly from 2.8% of all blood cultures to 6.1%. With each extra 1 ml of blood cultured the odds of recovering a pneumococcus increased by 18%.
conclusionStandardisation and assessment of blood culture performance (blood volume and contamination rate) should be incorporated into pneumococcal disease surveillance activities where routine blood culture practice is constrained by limited resources.
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