A prospective study of the risk for serious bacterial infections in hospitalized febrile infants with or without bronchiolitis

Efraim Bilavsky; Dror S Shouval; Havatzelet Yarden-Bilavsky; Naama Fisch; Shai Ashkenazi; Jacob Amir

doi:10.1097/INF.0b013e31815e85b1

A prospective study of the risk for serious bacterial infections in hospitalized febrile infants with or without bronchiolitis

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2008 Mar;27(3):269-70. doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31815e85b1.

Authors

Efraim Bilavsky¹, Dror S Shouval, Havatzelet Yarden-Bilavsky, Naama Fisch, Shai Ashkenazi, Jacob Amir

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pediatrics C, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel. yoji@netvision.net.il

PMID: 18277919
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31815e85b1

Abstract

The objective of this study was to assess prospectively the frequency of concurrent serious bacterial infection (SBI) in febrile infants < or = 3 months of age with or without bronchiolitis. SBI was detected in 30 of 312 (9.6%) infants without bronchiolitis compared with 3 of 136 (2.2%) infants with bronchiolitis. The risk of SBI in febrile infants is significantly lower in the presence of bronchiolitis.

MeSH terms

Bacterial Infections / epidemiology*
Bronchiolitis / complications*
Female
Fever of Unknown Origin / complications*
Hospitalization
Humans
Infant
Prospective Studies
Risk Factors