Browsing College of Health Sciences (CHS) by Subject "Bacterial infections"
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Antimicrobial stewardship practices and quality of antibacterial use in children under five and women in labour with obstetric risk factors in selected health facilities in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2024)Introduction Bacterial infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Ugandan hospitalised children under the age of five. Disparities exist in using antibacterial agents to treat bacterial infections at ... -
Mortality and associated factors among in-patients with multi-drug (antibiotic) resistant bacterial infections at Kiruddu National Referral Hospital, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2024)Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacterial infections is an emerging public health threat that caused nearly five million annual deaths as of 2019. Multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections (resistance ... -
Prevalence of bacterial infections and utility of leucocytosis in predicting infections amongst adult sickle cell patients admitted to Mulago National Referral Hospital
(Makerere University, 2020-08)Background: Bacteraemia occurs less in SCA patients above 10 years of age yet they are usually admitted in crisis with a higher leucocyte count compared to normal population. We set out to determine the prevalence of ... -
Prevalence of carbapenem resistance among enterobacteriaceae isolated from patients in Mulago Hospital and complex from 2011 to 2014
(Makerere University, 2014)Background: Carbapenemases have increasingly been reported in Enterobacteriaceae worldwide.Chromosomal and plasmid mediated resistance in Enterobateriaceae, renders them the most variable of all bacteria in susceptibility ...