Severe and invasive bacterial infections in infants aged less than 90 days with and without SARS-CoV-2 infection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fever in children represents one of the most common causes of medical evaluation. Infants younger than 90 days of age are at higher risk of severe and invasive bacterial infections (SBI and IBI). However, clinical signs and symptoms of viral and bacterial infections in young infants are frequently similar, and several studies have shown that the risk of SBIs remains non-negligible even in the presence of a positive point-of-care viral test. Our study aims to evaluate whether the proportion of SBIs and IBIs in febrile infants younger than 90 days during the COVID-19 pandemic was higher than that in the pre-pandemic period, and to describe the proportion of SBIs and IBIs in infants with and without SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Methods

This was a retrospective single-center

SUBMITTER: Brigadoi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11325733 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature