A multicenter evaluation of viral bloodstream detections in children presenting to the Emergency Department with suspected systemic infection

• Main Authors: Christina A. Rostad (Author), Neena Kanwar (Author), Jumi Yi (Author), Claudia R. Morris (Author), Jennifer Dien Bard (Author), Amy Leber (Author), James Dunn (Author), Kimberle C. Chapin (Author), Anne J. Blaschke (Author), Judy A. Daly (Author), Leslie A. Hueschen (Author), Matthew Jones (Author), Elizabeth Ott (Author), Jeffrey Bastar (Author), Kevin M. Bourzac (Author), Rangaraj Selvarangan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Fever is a common symptom in children presenting to the Emergency Department (ED). We aimed to describe the epidemiology of systemic viral infections and their predictive values for excluding serious bacterial infections (SBIs), including bacteremia, meningitis and urinary tract...