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Mortality and neurodevelopmental outcome after Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in infants.

Cohen-Wolkowiez M, Benjamin DK, Fowler VG, Wade KC, Alexander BD, Worley G, Goldstein RF, Smith PB

Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

We compared outcomes in infants with methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Infants with methicillin-resistant S. aureus infection had a longer median duration of bacteremia (4.5 versus 1 day, P = 0.01), but no difference in length of hospital stay, mortality, or neurodevelopmental impairment.

Published 28 November 2007 in Pediatr Infect Dis J, 26(12): 1159-61.
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