Urbanicity and Paediatric Bacteraemia in Ghana—A Case-Control Study within a Rural-Urban Transition Zone

Peter Sothmann; Ralf Krumkamp; Benno Kreuels; Nimako Sarpong; Clemens Frank; Lutz Ehlkes; Julius Fobil; Kennedy Gyau; Anna Jaeger; Benedicta Bosu; Florian Marks; Ellis Owusu-Dabo; Bernd Salzberger; Jürgen May

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139433

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Urbanicity and Paediatric Bacteraemia in Ghana—A Case-Control Study within a Rural-Urban Transition Zone

Peter Sothmann,

Affiliations Research Group Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Division of Tropical Medicine, 1st Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany
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Ralf Krumkamp ,

* E-mail: krumkamp@bnitm.de

Affiliations Research Group Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany
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Benno Kreuels,

Affiliations Research Group Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Division of Tropical Medicine, 1st Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany
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Nimako Sarpong,

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana
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Clemens Frank,

Affiliations Research Group Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene, Charité-University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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Lutz Ehlkes,

Affiliation Research Group Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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Julius Fobil,

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
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Kennedy Gyau,

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana
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Anna Jaeger,

Affiliation Research Group Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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Benedicta Bosu,

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana
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Florian Marks,

Affiliation International Vaccine Institute (IVI), Seoul, Korea
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Ellis Owusu-Dabo,

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana
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Bernd Salzberger,

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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Jürgen May

Affiliations Research Group Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany
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Urbanicity and Paediatric Bacteraemia in Ghana—A Case-Control Study within a Rural-Urban Transition Zone

Peter Sothmann,
Ralf Krumkamp,
Benno Kreuels,
Nimako Sarpong,
Clemens Frank,
Lutz Ehlkes,
Julius Fobil,
Kennedy Gyau,
Anna Jaeger,
Benedicta Bosu

Published: September 29, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139433

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