Is 15 days an appropriate cut-off age for considering serious bacterial infection in the management of febrile infants?

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 455-458

  Garcia, Silvia ^a   Mintegi, Santiago ^a,b   Gomez, Borja ^a   Barron, Jorge ^a   Pinedo, Mari ^a   Barcena, Nerea ^a   Martinez, Elena ^a   Benito, Javier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CRUCES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fever; Neonate; Serious bacterial infection; Young infants

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEX; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TEMPERATURE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; AMBULATORY CARE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84860249177     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318247b9f2     Document Type: Article

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