A score identifying serious bacterial infections in children with fever without source

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 654-656

  Lacour, Annick Galetto ^a,b   Zamora, Samuel A ^a   Gervaix, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Hopital des Enfants Hopitaux universitaires de Geneve   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fever without a source; Scoring system; Serious bacterial infection

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CYSTITIS; FEVER; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTOIDITIS; MESENTERIC LYMPHADENITIS; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; SCORING SYSTEM; URINALYSIS; BACTERIUM; BLOOD; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS;

EID: 50949124626     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318168d2b4     Document Type: Article

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