Factors Predicting Blood Culture Positivity in Children With Enteric Fever.
Manikandan SrinivasanKulandaipalayam Natarajan SindhuKarthikeyan RamanujamRanjith Kumar RamasamySathyapriya SubramaniamSanthosh Kumar GanesanSwathi VajjaAnita Shirley DavidPramitha LankalaWinsley RosePrabhakar D MosesNicholas C GrasslyGagandeep KangJacob JohnPublished in: The Journal of infectious diseases (2022)
Performing blood cultures in older children with fever, especially those fevers with toxic presentation and increasing blood volume for inoculation are strategies to improve enteric fever detection in surveillance settings.