Hospital acquired infections in a private paediatric hospital in Kenya: a retrospective cross-sectional study.

Introduction: Hospital acquired infections (HAI) or infections acquired in a hospital setting significantly increase morbidity and mortality, prolong hospital stay and increase healthcare costs. Factors like malnutrition and irrational use of antibiotics in a resource limited setting contribute to poor outcome in children. Thus a retrospective cross-sectional study was undertaken to study the different types of HAI in children, the different organisms causing them and their sensitivity to different antimicrobials so as to inform appropriate empirical antimicrobial therapy initiation and thus prevent antimicrobial resistance in the region.

Severe combined immunodeficiency: a case series from a paediatric hospital in Kenya.

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) involves the lymphocyte lineage and mimics Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) disease common in our region, making it difficult to diagnose and manage effectively. SCID in East Africa stands underdiagnosed because of lack of awareness and diagnostic resources. A case series of three SCID patients admitted to a Tertiary Paediatric Centre in Kenya between 2016 and 2019.

Serotype Epidemiology among PCV-10 Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Children at Gertrude's Children's Hospital, Nairobi County: A Cross-Sectional Study.

: Serotype replacement and emergence of multidrug resistant has exacerbated the need for continuous regional serotype surveillance especially in the developing world. We investigated serotypes circulating among vaccinated and unvaccinated children ≤5 years in Nairobi County post PCV10 era. : A total of 206 vaccinated and unvaccinated children attending Gertrude's Children's Hospital (GCH) were recruited for this study.

A Cross-sectional Study to Compare Hepatitis B Immunity in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Kenyan Children After Primary Hepatitis B Immunization.

To evaluate protective antibody levels against hepatitis B surface antigen in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Kenyan children, this study enrolled 531 children. In the HIV-infected group, only 18.3% had protective hepatitis B surface antigen compared with 74.

Low prevalence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus as determined by an automated identification system in two private hospitals in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross sectional study.

Background: Staphylococcus aureus (S.aureus) is a major cause of both healthcare and community acquired infections. In developing countries, manual phenotypic tests are the mainstay for the identification of staphylococci with the tube and slide coagulase tests being relied upon as confirmatory tests for S.