Influenza virus infection and the risk of serious bacterial infections in young febrile infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-39

  Krief, William I ^a   Levine, Deborah A ^b   Platt, Shari L ^c,d   Macias, Charles G ^e   Dayan, Peter S ^c   Zorc, Joseph J ^f,g   Feffermann, Nancy ^b   Kuppermann, Nathan ^h  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Bronchiolitis; Fever; Infants; Influenza virus; RSV; Serious bacterial infection; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTERITIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 67649584103     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-2915     Document Type: Article

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