Should complete blood count be part of the evaluation of febrile infants aged ≤2 months?

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1380-1384

  Bilavsky, Efraim ^a,b   Yarden Bilavsky, Havatzelet ^a,b   Amir, Jacob ^a,b   Ashkenazi, Shai ^a,b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Absolute neutrophil count; Bacteremia; Serious bacterial infection; Urinary tract infection; White blood cell count

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITALIZED INFANT; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PARAMETER; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERIOUS BACTERIAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEUTROPHILS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77955879934     PISSN: 08035253     EISSN: 16512227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2010.01810.x     Document Type: Article

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