Sterile cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis in young infants with urinary tract infections

Samir S Shah; Joseph J Zorc; Deborah A Levine; Shari L Platt; Nathan Kuppermann

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.02.044

Sterile cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis in young infants with urinary tract infections

J Pediatr. 2008 Aug;153(2):290-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.02.044.

Authors

Samir S Shah¹, Joseph J Zorc, Deborah A Levine, Shari L Platt, Nathan Kuppermann

Affiliation

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. shahs@email.chop.edu

PMID: 18639733
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.02.044

Abstract

In a multicenter prospective study, 91 of 1025 febrile infants <or=60 days of age had urinary tract infections. Among patients with urinary tract infections and without traumatic lumbar punctures, sterile cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis was uncommon (0%-8%, depending on the definition) in contrast to earlier studies reporting this association.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Comorbidity
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Leukocytosis / cerebrospinal fluid*
Leukocytosis / epidemiology*
Male
Prevalence
Prospective Studies
Urinary Tract Infections / cerebrospinal fluid*
Urinary Tract Infections / epidemiology*