Performance of blood biomarkers to rule out invasive bacterial infection in febrile infants under 21 days old.
Borja GomezHaydee DiazAlba CarroJavier BenitoSantiago MintegiPublished in: Archives of disease in childhood (2018)
PCT, CRP and ANC are not useful for ruling out IBI in febrile infants ≤21 days old. It is still recommended that these patients are admitted and given empirical antibiotic therapy, regardless of their general appearance or blood test results.