ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
All the resident doctors, the House officers and the Nurses working at the Emergency Paediatric Unit (EPU) and the Children Medical Ward within the study period are appreciated for their record keeping efforts. Mr. Tanze Yakubu Danbaba the Medical Laboratory Technician attached to the EPU for support during working hours is hereby appreciated.
Availability of data source
The secondary data used in this study can be made available if needed.
Declarations
Funding
The researchers funded this study without any external funding
Conflict of interest
There is no conflict of interest
Ethical Consideration
This is a secondary data that has no means of personal identification thereby ensuring privacy of client’s data. We sought and obtained permission of the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital research ethics committee. We equally took measures to limit the number of personnels with access to the data, data coding and a passworded access required as a confidentiality to client’s information. Ethical approval number: DASHREC/399.
Clinical trial number: Not applicable.
Authors contributions
SOB; Conception of idea, Literature review, Data collection and analysis, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. TOO; Conception of idea, Literature review, Data analysis, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. TLI; Conception of idea, Data collection and analysis, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. SM; Conception of idea, Data analysis, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. SIO; Literature review, Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. HA; Data analysis, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. HEO; Literature review, Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. JA; Literature review, Data collection and analysis, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. VON; Literature review, Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. CLS; Literature review, Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission FEA; Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. AOU; Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. MKI; Data collection and analysis, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. AAO; Literature review, Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. GO; Literature review, Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. VE; Literature review, Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. KMK; Literature review, Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. ICA; Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. AY; Literature review, Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. ESA; Literature review, Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. UAS; Literature review, Data collection, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission DA; Data analysis, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission. MMD; Data analysis, Writing of manuscript, Review of final version and agreement with submission.
Author’s details
Surajudeen Oyeleke Bello1, Taofik Oluwaseun Ogunkunle1, Tajudeen Lanre Ibrahim1, Suleiman Mayaki1, Sunday Ikupla’si Ozhe1, Hadizatu Aliyu1, Halim Emmanuel Odiachi1, John Ayinor1, Victor Onuh Noah1, Christiana Lane Simon1, Favour Ene Agbo1, Ann Okwuchukwu Ugwu1, Moses Kelechi Ikekwe1, Adijat Ajoke Onigbanjo1, Grace Offo1, Victor Embugushiki1, Khadija Mohammad Kabir2, Immaculata Chinwe Anderson1, Yakubu Abdullahi1, Esther Solomon Audu3, Usman Abiola Sanni4, Dayo Adeyemi5, Mahmood Dalhat6.
Department of Paediatrics
Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital
Lafia Nasarawa State
Nigeria
- Department of Family Medicine
Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital
Lafia Nasarawa State
Nigeria
- Department of Medical Microbiology
Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital
Lafia Nasarawa State
Nigeria
- Department of Paediatrics
Koidu Government Hospital
Koidu, Kono
Sierra Leone.
- Department of Community Medicine
Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital
Lafia Nasarawa State
Nigeria
- Kaduna State University / Infectious Diseases Control Centre
Kaduna Kaduna State
Nigeria.
Corresponding author;
Surajudeen Oyeleke Bello
Department of Paediatrics
Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital
Lafia
Nasarawa State
Nigeria
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