Antibiotic resistance needs global solutions

Abstract

Based on these data, we estimated the disease-specific burden in sub-Saharan African children in 2005 by applying the admission rates,4 risk per admission, case-fatality ratio, and impact per case3 determined at this site for regional child population estimates.5 On the basis of these assessments, nosocomial bacteraemia could have accounted for 25 000 deaths and 270 000 additional inpatient days in African children in 2005.