Changing epidemiology of serious bacterial infections in febrile infants without localizing signs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Watt, Kevin ^a   Waddle, Erica ^a   Jhaveri, Ravi ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; NEWBORN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 77957910616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012448     Document Type: Article

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