Very low rates of culture-confirmed invasive bacterial infections in a prospective 3-year population-based surveillance in Southwest London

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 526-531

  Doare, Kirsty Le ^a,b   Nichols, Anna Louise ^a   Payne, Helen ^a   Wells, Rosy ^a   Navidnia, Sonia ^a   Appleby, Gayle ^a   Calton, Elizabeth ^a   Sharland, Mike ^a   Ladhani, Shamez N ^a,c  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PAKISTAN; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INVASIVE BACTERIAL INFECTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INVASIVE BACTERIAL INFECTION; INCIDENCE; NEWBORN;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LONDON; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84901200571     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305565     Document Type: Article

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