Archives de pédiatrie : organe officiel de la Sociéte française de pédiatrie
-
To identify predictive factors of the presence of a serious bacterial infection (SBI) in febrile infants less than three months old. ⋯ At present, no factor(s) is(are) able to predict with 100% accuracy the absence of SBI in febrile infants less than three months old. The risk of severe sequelae or death caused by untreated SBI would seem to justify the prescription of antibiotics until microbacterial culture results become available.