PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | malaria |
| Phenotype | C0011127|decubitus |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22708041 | Aspiration pneumonia or infected decubitus ulcer in patients with cerebral malaria and prolonged coma) are possible.41 associated bacteraemia, mainly caused by gram negative bacteria, may coexist in severe and uncomplicated malaria and should be suspected, especially in subjects with hypotension and unexplained deterioration despite parasitemia clearance.22,41 the threshold for administering antibiotic treatment should be low in severe malaria.22 a recent study carried out in a cohort of 506 kenyan children with malaria found 11,7% prevalence of bacteraemia, with non typhoidal salmonella spp being the most common isolates (42,4%).44 several mechanisms are invoked to explain the susceptibility to bacteraemia during malaria. |
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