Ill-appearing febrile 5-week-old infant: the rule of empiric treatment

Efraim Bilavsky; Dana Singer-Harel; Havatzelet Yarden-Bilavsky; Yehezkel Waisman; Jacob Amir

Ill-appearing febrile 5-week-old infant: the rule of empiric treatment

Efraim Bilavsky^*, Dana Singer-Harel, Havatzelet Yarden-Bilavsky, Yehezkel Waisman, Jacob Amir

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Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

This is a case study of a 5-week-old child, after prolonged hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, with fever and urinary tract infection caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing, gentamicin-resistant, Escherichia coli. This case highlights the importance of taking risk factors for resistant bacterial infection into account in young, ill-appearing infants, and suggests that in some cases empirical antibiotic treatment should be even broader than recommended by current guidelines.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	759-760, 794
Journal	Harefuah
Volume	148
Issue number	11
State	Published - Nov 2009

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