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A Neonatal Imaging Model of Gram-Negative Bacterial Sepsis
Published on: August 12, 2020
Correlating CBC profile and infectious outcome. A study of febrile infants evaluated for sepsis
W A Bonadio1, D Smith, J Carmody
1Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Abstract:
The cases of 1,009 febrile infants who were evaluated for sepsis as outpatients during a seven-year period were reviewed to correlate their complete blood count (CBC) profiles with the infectious outcomes. Eighty-one infants had serious bacterial infections (SBIs); the remainder (928) were culture-negative. The infants with SBIs had a significantly greater mean total white blood cell (WBC) count and absolute band count (ABC) than did those who were culture-negative, whereas the difference in mean percent of polymorphonuclear leukocytes was not significant. The sensitivity of the ABC was significantly superior to that of total WBC count in predicting the outcome of SBI. The diagnostic data provided by the ABC can aid physicians in determining the predictive value of CBC profiles for infectious outcome in febrile infants receiving outpatient sepsis evaluation.
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