Kilifi Hospital Surveillance: 87,637 Pediatric Records over 26 Years

87,637 clinical and laboratory records document pediatric hospitalizations at Kilifi County Hospital, Kenya, between August 1998 and June 2024. Kelvin Mokaya Abuga compiled this surveillance data to investigate the relationship between severe anaemia and invasive bacterial infections over a 26-year period.

Use Cases

• Statistical analysis of the association between severe anaemia and Salmonella infections in pediatric patients
• Trend analysis of Haemophilus influenzae prevalence from 1998 to 2024
• Risk factor identification for Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in hospitalized children

Strengths

• 87,637 individual patient records
• 26-year longitudinal surveillance period
• Pathogen-specific identification for Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, and others

Limitations

• Geographic bias limited to a single hospital facility in Kilifi, Kenya
• Potential temporal shifts in diagnostic laboratory standards and protocols over the 26-year span

Provenance

Source

Kilifi County Hospital surveillance study published via Dataverse

Collection Method

Hospital surveillance and laboratory testing

Time Range

1998-08 to 2024-06

Freshness

Last updated March 2026 per source metadata.

Geography

Kilifi, Kenya