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Table 2 Etiology of pneumonia and meningitis

From: The role of angiogenic factors in predicting clinical outcome in severe bacterial infection in Malawian children

Organism

Meningitis

Pneumonia

Streptococcus pneumoniae

144

36

Neisseria meningitidis

10

0

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

5

1

Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis

2

0

Haemophilus influenzae b

7

3

Haemophilus influenzae

3

0

Mixed S. enterica/S. pneumoniae

1

0

Other (E. coli, K. pneumoniae, S. pyogenes, S. aureus)

4

0

Negative

35

42

Total

211

82