[Hospital septicemias in Dakar. Epidemiologic study].

The authors examine the epidemiological character of septicemia at A. Le Dantec Paupers' Hospital, which admits an average of 10.000 patients per year to its surgical, medical, specialized medical and paediatric units. Distribution is studied in function of age, sex, unit, field of origin and germs, and according to whether the case was nosocomial or not.