Bacterial Meningitis in Children With Sickle Cell Disease in Angola
Open Access
- 13 July 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- Vol. 41 (8), e335-e338
- https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0000000000003581
Abstract
Sickle-cell disease (SCD) was found in 10% of children with bacterial meningitis (BM) in Luanda, 5-fold more than in the general population. BM children with SCD versus BM children without SCD had higher inflammatory markers, more often had pneumococcal meningitis (71% vs. 39%), and either died (39% vs. 22%) or had a longer hospital stay (15 vs. 11 days).This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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