Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Rosselló 132, Barcelona E-08036, Spain.
Nationale de Santé Publique (ENSP), Ministère de la santé, Rue Lamfadel Ach. Cherkaoui, Madinat Al Irfane, Rabat 6329, Morocco.
Antibiotics (Basel). 2013 Sep 26;2(4):450-64. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics2040450.
Scarce and limited epidemiological, clinical and microbiological data are available regarding pediatric respiratory tract infections in the Kingdom of Morocco, a middle-income country in Northwestern Africa. Data on antibiotic usage for such infections are also scarce. A good understanding of pre-admission and intra-hospital usage of antibiotics in children with respiratory infections linked with an adequate surveillance of the antibiotic susceptibility from circulating pathogens could help policy makers improve their recommendations on management of respiratory infections. We hereby present data on antibiotic usage prior and during admission and antibiotic susceptibility of major circulating respiratory pathogens in children under five years of age admitted to the Hôpital d'Enfants de Rabat, Morocco, with a diagnosis of clinical severe pneumonia (using World Health Organization (WHO) standardized case definitions) during a period of 14 months (November 2010-December 2011), as part of a larger hospital-based surveillance study designed to understand the etiology and epidemiology of severe pneumonia cases among children.
摩洛哥王国是北非的一个中等收入国家，有关儿科呼吸道感染的流行病学、临床和微生物学数据稀缺有限。有关此类感染抗生素使用的数据也很有限。充分了解与呼吸道感染相关的入院前和院内抗生素使用情况，并对循环病原体的抗生素敏感性进行适当监测，有助于决策者改进其对呼吸道感染管理的建议。我们在此介绍了在摩洛哥拉巴特儿童医院就诊的五岁以下患有临床严重肺炎（采用世界卫生组织（WHO）标准化病例定义）的儿童在入院前和入院期间的抗生素使用情况以及主要循环呼吸道病原体的抗生素敏感性数据，这些儿童是作为一项旨在了解儿童严重肺炎病例病因和流行病学的更大医院为基础的监测研究的一部分。该研究期间为 14 个月（2010 年 11 月至 2011 年 12 月）。
