Relationship Between the Magnitude of Bacteremia in Children and the Clinical Disease
| Autor: | Erwin Neter, Sullivan Td, LaScolea Lj |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Epiglottitis business.industry Neisseria meningitidis Respiratory infection medicine.disease medicine.disease_cause Gastroenterology Haemophilus influenzae Chocolate agar chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Internal medicine Bacteremia Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Streptococcus pneumoniae medicine business Meningitis |
| Zdroj: | Pediatrics. 69:699-702 |
| ISSN: | 1098-4275 0031-4005 |
| DOI: | 10.1542/peds.69.6.699 |
| Popis: | The relationship between the magnitude of bacteremia due to Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Neisseria meningitidis and the clinical diagnosis was determined on 79 children who were not receiving prior antibiotic therapy and had fever, either in the presence or absence of focal signs of infection. Bacteremia was quantitated by the recently described Quantitative Direct Plating procedure in which heparinized blood (0.5 ml each) is plated onto blood and chocolate agar plates. Additionally, blood was cultured by means of the radiometric Bactec technique. In the case of H influenzae and S pneumoniae, 23 (92%) of 25 patients with more than 100 organisms per milliliter of blood had meningitis or epiglottitis in contrast to only four (9.5%) of 42 patients with |
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