Risk of serious bacterial infection in young febrile infants with respiratory syncytial virus infections

Pediatrics

Volumn 113, Issue 6 I, 2004, Pages 1728-1734

  Levine, Deborah A ^a   Platt, Shari L ^a,g   Dayan, Peter S ^b   Macias, Charles G ^c   Zorc, Joseph J ^d   Krief, William ^e   Schor, Jeffrey ^f   Bank, David ^g,i   Fefferman, Nancy ^a   Shaw, Kathy N ^d   Kuppermann, Nathan ^h   Stein, ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian   (United States)

^c TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e SCHNEIDER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Bronchiolitis; Fever; Infant; RSV; Serious bacterial infection; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BRONCHIOLITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTERITIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NASOPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WHEEZING;

EID: 2542608408     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.113.6.1728     Document Type: Article

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