Treatment of Unsuspected Meningococcal Disease • 390
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Clinical and hematologic features do not reliably identify children with unsuspected meningococcal disease.
OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of unsuspected meningococcal disease (UMD) in young febrile children with meningococcal infections and evaluate whether clinical and laboratory parameters commonly used in the evaluation of fever can help identify children with UMD. METHODS We reviewed the records of children with meningococcal disease from 1985 to 1996 at four referral centers. Children w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199804001-00411