Characteristics of Afebrile Infants ≤60 Days of Age With Invasive Bacterial Infections

Marie E. Wang, MD, MPH^a,
Mark I. Neuman, MD, MPH^b,
Lise E. Nigrovic, MD, MPH^b,
Christopher M. Pruitt, MD^c,
Sanyukta Desai, MD, MSc^d,
Adrienne G. DePorre, MD^e,
Laura F. Sartori, MD, MPH^f,
Richard D. Marble, MD^g,
Christopher Woll, MD^h,
Rianna C. Leazer, MDⁱ,
Fran Balamuth, MD, PhD, MSCE^j,
Sahar N. Rooholamini, MD, MPH^k and
Paul L. Aronson, MD, MHS^h ON BEHALF OF THE FEBRILE YOUNG INFANT RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE

^aDivision of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California;
^bDivision of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts;
^cDivision of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama;
^dDivision of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio;
^eDivision of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri;
^fDivision of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Monroe Carell Jr Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee;
^gDivision of Emergency Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois;
^hSection of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics and of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut;
ⁱDivision of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, Norfolk, Virginia;
^jDivision of Emergency Medicine and Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and
^kDivision of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children’s Hospital and School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Address correspondence to Marie E. Wang, MD, MPH, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Dr, MC 5776, Stanford, CA 94305. E-mail: marie.wang{at}stanford.edu

Dr Wang conceptualized and designed the study, collected local data, performed the data analyses, interpreted the data, drafted the initial manuscript, and reviewed and revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content; Drs Neuman, Nigrovic, Pruitt, Desai, DePorre, Sartori, Marble, Woll, Leazer, Balamuth, and Rooholamini collected local data, interpreted the data, and reviewed and revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content; Dr Aronson conceptualized and designed the study, supervised data collection locally and nationally, interpreted the data, and reviewed and revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content; and all authors approved the final manuscript as submitted and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

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