Causes and outcomes of sepsis in southeast Asia: a multinational multicentre cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Improved understanding of pathogens that cause sepsis would aid management and antimicrobial selection. In this study, we aimed to identify the causative pathogens of sepsis in southeast Asia.

Methods

In this multinational multicentre cross-sectional study of community-acquired sepsis and severe sepsis, we prospectively recruited children (age ≥30 days and <18 years) and adults (age ≥18 years) at 13 public hospitals in Indonesia (n=3), Thailand (n=4), and Vietnam (n=6). Hospitalised patients with suspected or documented community-acquired infection, with at least three diagnostic criteria for sepsis according to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2012, and within 24 h of admission were enrolled. Blood from every patient, and nasopharyngeal swab, urine, stool, and cereb

SUBMITTER: Southeast Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5332551 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature