Erschienen in:
30.04.2018 | Letter to the Editor
Antibiotic use in children with Kawasaki disease
verfasst von:
Seung Beom Han, Soo-Young Lee
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Pediatrics
|
Ausgabe 6/2018
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Excerpt
As the diagnostic criteria for Kawasaki disease (KD) consist of the clinical features that are shared by other childhood febrile illnesses [
1,
2], KD is sometimes confused with a bacterial infection, leading to clinical situations in which children with the disease receive antibiotics [
3‐
5]. Here, we report the extent of antibiotic use in children with KD and the clinical parameters confusing KD with a bacterial infection. …