Volta Health Network (VHN), a health development organisation of people of Volta descent has donated medications and supplies to about 20 health facilities in Keta Municipality and Anloga District. The items, which included boxes of Losartan (50mg), Amoxicillin Clavulanic Acid (625mg), Catagin, Erythromycin tablet, Co-Trimoxazole, Amlodipine, surgical gowns, and tubes…
9). We report trends in management and outcomes of melioidosis over 10 years at a nongovernmental pediatric hospital in northern Cambodia.
The Study
This study was approved by the hospital institutional review board (AHC IRB 979-14; 1044-15) and the Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Ethics Committee (OxTREC 550-14). Data on all culture-confirmed case-patients who had
B. pseudomallei infection during January 1, 2009–December 31, 2018, were collected retrospectively (2009–2013) and prospectively as part of an invasive bacterial infection surveillance study. Retrospective case-patients (the first 173 case-patients) have previously been described and are included to illustrate trends over the decade (
Figure 1
Figure 1. Prevalence of undernutrition for 262 children 10 years of age who had culture-confirmed melioidosis, northern Cambodia, 2009–2018. Linear trend lines indicate nonunderweight children (solid line, open circles: R 0.76; p .