title: Aerobic and facultative bacterial isolates from blood cultures of children with clinically diagnosed septicaemia.
abstract: A total of 120 sets of blood cultures were performed aerobically from 60 children with clinically diagnosed septicaemia at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi. Out of these, 36 (30%) sets from 19 (31.7%) patients yielded bacterial growth while 84 (70%) sets from 41 (68.3%) were negative. Salmonella typhimurium was the most frequently isolated bacteria (63%), followed by Staphylococcus aureus (15.8%). Salmonella typhimurium isolates were mostly multi-antibiotic resistant, most of them only sensitive to amikacin and cefotaxime, while all were resistant to ampicillin and co-trimoxazole, the most frequently used antibiotic in this hospital.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Odhiambo
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Wamola
authors.forename: J O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Ndinya-Achola
mesh_terms: D016470:Bacteremia / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D001420:Bacteria, Aerobic; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D006092:Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007630:Kenya / Q000453:epidemiology