How common is co-existing meningitis in infants with urinary tract infection?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 602-606

  Tebruegge, Marc ^a,b   Pantazidou, Anastasia ^b   Curtis, Nigel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEUKOCYTE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGITIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT DURATION; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PUNCTURE; REVIEW;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; SPINAL PUNCTURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 85009423827     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2011.215277     Document Type: Note

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