Concomitant Bacterial Meningitis in Infants With Urinary Tract Infection

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2017 Sep;36(9):908-910. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000001626.

Abstract

To determine age-stratified prevalence of concomitant bacterial meningitis in infants ≤60 days with a urinary tract infection, we performed a 23-center, retrospective study of 1737 infants with urinary tract infection. Concomitant bacterial meningitis was rare, but more common in infants 0-28 days of age [0.9%; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.4%-1.9%) compared with infants 29-60 days of age (0.2%; 95% CI: 0%-0.8%).

Publication types

  • Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / complications*
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / epidemiology*
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / microbiology
  • Prevalence
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Urinary Tract Infections / complications*
  • Urinary Tract Infections / epidemiology*
  • Urinary Tract Infections / microbiology