PNEUMOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA IN FEBRILE INFANTS PRESENTING TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT 8 YEARS AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY OF SPAIN

We included 3088 well-appearing infants aged between 3 and 36 months with fever without a source with a blood culture done as part of their study of fever. Rate of positive blood cultures for Streptococcus pneumoniae occult bacteremia (OB) was 0.58%. Rate of OB caused by PCV7-serotypes and nonvaccin...

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