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.