Browsing by Subject "mortality"
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Antibiotic exposure as a risk factor for secondary Candida infections in a private hospital intensive care unit
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)Candida is the most common fungal pathogen and the leading cause of invasive candidiasis in humans. The range of infections caused by Candida is vast, and the increased use of potent broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents ... -
Assessment and evaluation of in-patient diagnosis and discharge protocols of Ghanaian infants and children (0 - 59 months) diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition - the SAMAC study
(North-West University, 2018)Introduction: Complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) poses an enormous threat to the survival of children 0 - 59 months old. Even though the World Health Organisation (WHO) has provided diagnostic guidelines for ... -
Blood glutathione and subclinical atherosclerosis in African men: the SABPA study
(Oxford Univ Press, 2009)Background: Sub-Saharan Africans face an increasing burden of hypertension and related cardiac and cerebrovascular morbidity and mortality, making the identification of factors leading to early vascular abnormalities ... -
Do ethics and morals really represent the best possible blueprints for the good life? Reflections on a possible pedagogy of discernment
(University of Zulia, 2015)Making use of hermeneutic phenomenology and morality critique as methodological navigation points, this paper challenges the illusory prestige and power of normative orders in presenting themselves to every successive ...