Diagnostic performance of the Lab-score in predicting severe and invasive bacterial infections in well-appearing young febrile infants

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1239-1244

  Bressan, Silvia ^a   Gomez, Borja ^b   Mintegi, Santiago ^b   Da Dalt, Liviana ^c   Blazquez, Daniel ^d   Olaciregui, Izaskun ^e   De La Torre, Mercedes ^f   Palacios, Miriam ^g   Berlese, Paola ^a   Ruano, Aitor ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b HOSPITAL DE CRUCES   (Spain)

^c CA FONCELLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL DONOSTIA   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL INFANTIL UNIVERSITARIO NIÑO JESÚS   (Spain)

^g Universidad Pública de Navarra   (Spain)

^h HOSPITAL DE BASURTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fever; Invasive bacterial infection; Procalcitonin; Severe bacterial infection; Young infant

Indexed keywords

PROCALCITONIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INVASIVE BACTERIAL INFECTION; ITALY; LAB SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERE BACTERIAL INFECTION; SPAIN;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MALE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPAIN; URINE;

EID: 84871014507     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318266a9aa     Document Type: Article

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