1. Increasing incidence of non-typhi Salmonella bacteremia among children living in southern Israel
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Nimrod Maimon, Pablo Yagupsky, and Ron Dagan
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Microbiology (medical) ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Salmonella ,Time Factors ,Adolescent ,Population ,Ethnic group ,medicine.disease_cause ,Epidemiology ,medicine ,Humans ,Israel ,bacteremia ,education ,Child ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Incidence ,enteric infections ,Age Factors ,Infant, Newborn ,Infant ,General Medicine ,non-typhi salmonellae ,medicine.disease ,Arabs ,Infectious Diseases ,El Niño ,Bacteremia ,Child, Preschool ,Jews ,Salmonella Infections ,Typhi salmonella ,epidemiology ,business ,Demography - Abstract
Objectives: To determine if the epidemiology of Salmonella gastroenteritis and childhood bacteremia among the two ethnic populations (Jews and Bedouins) living in southern Israel has changed in recent years.Methods: Retrospective review of laboratory records and medical charts of patients from whom non-typhi salmonellae were isolated from stool and blood cultures in the 1990–1995 period.Results: The overall incidence of enteric Salmonella infections was 123.5 per 100 000 inhabitants and remained stable during the study period. The incidence of bacteremia among children younger than 4 years increased from 9.3 per 100 000 in the 1990–1992 period to 26.8 per 100 000 in the 1993–1995 period (P
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