A low peripheral blood white blood cell count in infants younger than 90 days increases the odds of acute bacterial meningitis relative to bacteremia

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1297-1301

  Bonsu, Bema K ^a,b   Harper, Marvin B ^a  

^a NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Division of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

bacteremia; bacterial meningitis; infants; peripheral blood white blood cell count

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD; CALCULATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANCY; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTEREMIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS;

EID: 9644289422     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.06.012     Document Type: Article

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