Age- and sex-specific prevalence of serious bacterial infections in febrile infants ≤60 days, in Sweden.

Ioannis Orfanos Tobias Alfvén Maria Mossberg Mattias Tenland Jorge Sotoca Fernandez Erik A Eklund Kristina Elfving

Published in: Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) (2021)

The total SBI prevalence was 12.6%, and UTI represented the vast majority. The prevalence of bacteraemia and meningitis was low, particularly in the 29-60 days age group, without significant difference between boys and girls.

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risk factors
cerebrospinal fluid