Paed Child Healt Can
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Paed Child Healt Can · Jul 1999
Time to identification of positive bacterial cultures in infants under three months of age hospitalized to rule out sepsis.
To calculate the culture incubation required to determine bacteremia or meningitis in infants younger than three months of age hospitalized from the community following a full septic work-up for fever without focus. ⋯ With the present culture technique, most, if not all, clinically significant positive blood and CSF results are reported by 48 h of culture incubation.