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Evaluation of the incidence of occult bacteremia among children with fever of unknown origin
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Autores: Berezin,Eitan Naaman; Iazzetti,Marco Antonio.
We reviewed the incidence of occult bacteremia, to identify the most frequent etiological agents of bacteremias in otherwise healthy children from one month to 10 years old, who had fever of unknown origin attended at the emergency ward of an urban, university-affiliated pediatric referral center. This was a retrospective medical record review, evaluating children with fever. Data were collected from the initial visit, when blood cultures, hematological properties and hemosedimentation rates were examined. Fever was considered as the highest temperature assessed in the hospital or reported by the responsible adult. Occult bacteremia was discovered in 1.4% of the 1,051 children evaluated, and the most common etiologic agent was Streptococcus pneumoniae....
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Fever; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Occult bacteremia.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702006000600007