Rates of positive blood, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid cultures in children younger than 60 days during the vaccination era

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 125-130

  Morley, Eric J ^a   Lapoint, Jeff M ^a   Roy, Linnea W ^a   Cantor, Richard ^a   Grant, William D ^a   Paolo, William F ^a   Wojcik, Susan ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fever; infant; sepsis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEPSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

AGE FACTORS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HERD; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEW YORK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINE; VACCINATION;

EID: 84857185463     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e318243fa50     Document Type: Review

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