Microbiological profile of sterile site organisms and culture positivity rates from a decade of paediatric admissions at a tertiary hospital in South Africa: A lower and middle-income country perspective

The burden of paediatric MDR gram-negative SS infection was relatively high requiring ongoing surveillance, judicious antimicrobial use, while reinforcing infection control contact-based transmission precautions. Further studies on drivers of antimicrobial resistance such as unit specific antimicrobial consumption rates and prescriber practices, should be explored.