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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease bacteremia
Phenotype C0017160|gastroenteritis
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PubMedID- 22161258 Purpose: to characterize the clinical and laboratory manifestations of non-typhi salmonella gastroenteritis associated with bacteremia in children less than 36 months old.
PubMedID- 24618933 The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of secondary bacteremia in children with rotavirus gastroenteritis and persistence or reemergence of fever.
PubMedID- 26089821 bacteremia associated with viral gastroenteritis often with an accompanying fever is a known complication (62).
PubMedID- 24166928 However, in patients with compromised or undeveloped immune systems, the gastroenteritis can lead to bacteremia, with a mortality rate approaching 50% (cover and aber 1989).
PubMedID- 24715927 Whereas most other nontyphoidal salmonellae cause self-limited gastroenteritis with only 5% of patients developing bacteremia, s. choleraesuis causes primary bacteremia in up to 70% of patients and focal invasive, extra intestinal disease in 25–50% of patients with a paucity of gastrointestinal symptoms especially in the immunosuppressed, older patient [7, 8].

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