Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to register

Click here to browse AJSM online!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Clinical Pediatrics
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by David, C.
Right arrow Articles by Polansky, E.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by David, C.
Right arrow Articles by Polansky, E.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

The Outcome of Staphylococcal Bacteremia in Childhood

"The Prognosis is Better Than Previously Reported"

Clifford David, M.D.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104

Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104

Evan Polansky

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104

Fifty infants and children were treated for staphylococcal infections complicated by bacteremia. Of these, 28 had serious underlying diseases, principally leukemia (15 cases). All were treated with intravenous anti biotics for a median duration of 12.7 days. Although 13 patients died (26%), the staphylococcal infection had apparently been eradicated in all but three (6%), one of whom died before treatment could be started. The relatively brief treatment periods required in even severely compromised leukemic patients and the survival of all but one of 22 previously healthy patients with staphylococcal bacteremia suggest that the prognosis is better than previously reported.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 15, No. 3, 273-279 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/000992287601500307
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?