Invasive pneumococcal disease in infants younger than 60 days

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 478-482

  Ashkenazi, Limor ^a   Bar Meir, Maskit ^a   Schlesinger, Yechiel ^a   Megged, Orli ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

bacteremia; meningitis; neonate; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CEFOTAXIME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PENICILLINS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859819218     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922811436337     Document Type: Article

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