Month-by-month age analysis of the risk for serious bacterial infections in febrile infants with bronchiolitis

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1052-1056

  Yarden Bilavsky, Havatzelet ^a,b   Ashkenazi Hoffnung, Liat ^a   Livni, Gilat ^a,b   Amir, Jacob ^a,b   Bilavsky, Efraim ^a,b  

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

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

bronchiolitis; respiratory syncytial virus; serious bacterial infections; urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRONCHIOLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGING; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRONCHIOLITIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 80054827151     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922811412949     Document Type: Article

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