title: Antibiotic Usage Prior and During Hospitalization for Clinical Severe Pneumonia in Children under Five Years of Age in Rabat, Morocco.
abstract: Scarce and limited epidemiological, clinical and microbiological data are available regarding pediatric respiratory tract infections in the Kingdom of Morocco, a middle-income country in Northwestern Africa. Data on antibiotic usage for such infections are also scarce. A good understanding of pre-admission and intra-hospital usage of antibiotics in children with respiratory infections linked with an adequate surveillance of the antibiotic susceptibility from circulating pathogens could help policy makers improve their recommendations on management of respiratory infections. We hereby present data on antibiotic usage prior and during admission and antibiotic susceptibility of major circulating respiratory pathogens in children under five years of age admitted to the Hôpital d'Enfants de Rabat, Morocco, with a diagnosis of clinical severe pneumonia (using World Health Organization (WHO) standardized case definitions) during a period of 14 months (November 2010-December 2011), as part of a larger hospital-based surveillance study designed to understand the etiology and epidemiology of severe pneumonia cases among children.
authors.affiliation: Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Rosselló 132, Barcelona E-08036, Spain. imane.jroundi@cresib.cat.|Nationale de Santé Publique (ENSP), Ministère de la santé, Rue Lamfadel Ach. Cherkaoui, Madinat Al Irfane, Rabat 6329, Morocco. imane.jroundi@cresib.cat.
authors.forename: Imane
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jroundi
authors.affiliation: Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Rosselló 132, Barcelona E-08036, Spain. rachid.benmessaoud@cresib.cat.
authors.forename: Rachid
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Benmessaoud
authors.affiliation: Enfants (HER), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Sina, Boulevard Ibn Rochd, Souissi, Rabat 10100, Morocco. cmahraoui@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Chafiq
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mahraoui
authors.affiliation: Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Rosselló 132, Barcelona E-08036, Spain. cinta.moraleda@cresib.cat.
authors.forename: Cinta
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Moraleda
authors.affiliation: Enfants (HER), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Sina, Boulevard Ibn Rochd, Souissi, Rabat 10100, Morocco. tliguicom@yahoo.fr.
authors.forename: Houssain
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tligui
authors.affiliation: Enfants (HER), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Sina, Boulevard Ibn Rochd, Souissi, Rabat 10100, Morocco. myriamseffar@yahoo.fr.
authors.forename: Myriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seffar
authors.affiliation: Enfants (HER), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Sina, Boulevard Ibn Rochd, Souissi, Rabat 10100, Morocco. bsououd@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Badr Sououd
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Benjelloun
authors.affiliation: Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Rosselló 132, Barcelona E-08036, Spain. JVILA@clinic.ub.es.
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vila
authors.affiliation: Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Rosselló 132, Barcelona E-08036, Spain. JORUIZ@clinic.ub.es.
authors.forename: Joaquim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ruiz
authors.affiliation: Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Rosselló 132, Barcelona E-08036, Spain. pedro.alonso@isglobal.org.
authors.forename: Pedro L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Alonso
authors.affiliation: Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Rosselló 132, Barcelona E-08036, Spain. quique.bassat@cresib.cat.
authors.forename: Quique
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Bassat
keywords: Morocco; acute respiratory infection; antibiotics; children; risk factors