Antimicrobial resistance in urinary bacterial isolates from pregnant women in rural Tanzania: implications for public health.

Treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria and urinary tract infections in pregnancy can prevent adverse outcome for mother and child. However, antimicrobial resistance can impede effective chemotherapy. From April 1995 to March 1996, urine specimens from 5153 pregnant women in a rural area in northern Tanzania were inoculated on dip slides.

Maternal mortality in northern rural Tanzania: assessing the completeness of various information sources.

Background: To assess the completeness of various information sources and the subsequent estimates on maternal mortality.

Methods: Maternal deaths in the study area, rural northern Tanzania, in 1995 were identified from hospital records, health centers and dispensaries, registration by village leaders, follow up of an antenatal cohort, and a household survey. Data from some of these sources were also obtained in 1996.