Sarah Kyne, Doireann Ní Shíocháin, Caoimhe McDonnell, Aisling Byrne, Una Sutton-Fitzpatrick, Niamh Crowley, Leona Nertney, Conor Myers, John Waldron, Aneeq Ahmed, Caragh Wrynne, Jerome Fennell, Patrick Fitzpatrick, John J Fitzsimons, Barry Scanlan, David Vaughan, Kathleen M Gorman, Robert Cunney, Anna E Smyth, Jonathan O'B Hourihane
Invasive bacterial disease is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In winter 2022, there was an apparent increased rate of invasive bacterial disease compared to preceding years. Cross-site retrospective analysis of the three Children's Health Ireland (CHI) hospitals looking at children admitted between 1st October 2022-31st December 2022 (Q4) with community-acquired invasive bacterial disease, defined as an abscess in a normally sterile site in the head, neck and chest or isolation or PCR detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A streptococcus) or Haemophilus influenzae from a normally sterile site...
October 26, 2023: European Journal of Pediatrics