This descriptive study looked at patients admitted to the Medical Research Council hospital in the Gambia with a possible diagnosis of sepsis/bacteremia. About 10% of 871 patients had a positive blood culture considered to be "a genuine pathogen." The median age of all patients was 2 years, range 2 months - 80 years. S. pneumococcus was the most frequently-isolated pathogen.
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