None of the patients required readmission because of clinical deterioration, suspected infection or recurrent fever prior to their neutropenia resolving.
Years of war in Sierra Leone during the 1990s weakened health systems and led to a long-term deterioration in infection control practices.
For instance, in 2004 an outbreak of Lassa fever in the Kenema district in Sierra Leone was due to the long-term deterioration of infection control practices in the local hospital [ 12].
While about half the antibodies in development are aimed at cancer, others are being tested against psoriasis, vision deterioration, bacterial infections, heart attacks, stroke and rejection of transplanted organs.
Patients with neurodegenerative diseases can experience irreversible deterioration during infections.
In more than four million people each year, heart valves fail for different reasons, including birth defects, age-related deteriorations and infections.
Other complications in the laparoscopic hysterectomy group were a urinary tract infection, deterioration of pre-operative micturition problems with long-term catheterization, back pain for which a neurologist was consulted but found no abnormalities.
Causes of the deterioration other than infection could be ruled out in these patients.
In a subanalysis no relationship was found between this deterioration and viral infection.
