High mortality of invasive pneumococcal disease compared with meningococcal disease in critically ill children

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1550-1557

  Thorburn, Kentigern ^a   Taylor, Nia ^b   Lopez Rodriguez, Lucia ^a,c   Ashworth, Michael ^d   De La Cal, Miguel Angel ^c   Van Saene, Hendrik Karel Ferdinand ^a,b  

^a ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE   (Spain)

^d GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerobic Gram negative bacilli; Critically ill children; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Neisseria meningitidis; Paediatric intensive care; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; PENICILLIN G;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPERINFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 27744578646     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-005-2803-1     Document Type: Article

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