%0 Journal Article
%T COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA IN NORTHWESTERN NIGERIA: EPIDEMIOLOGY, ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND OUTCOME
%A Abdulrazaq Garba Habib
%A Farouq Dayyab Mohammad
%A Garba Iliyasu
%J Archive of "African Journal of Infectious Diseases".
%D 2018
%R 10.21010/ajid.v12i1.3
%X Pneumococcus is the leading cause of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) worldwide, and the leading cause of mortality. Pneumococcal pneumonia is poorly studied in Nigeria. We describe the epidemiology including associated co-morbidities and outcome of pneumococcal pneumonia in North-western Nigeria
%K Pneumococcal pneumonia
%K Epidemiology
%K Antimicrobial resistance
%K Out come
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5733253/