TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 51. Neonatal Fever A1 - Avner, Jeffrey R. A2 - Shah, Samir S. Y1 - 2009 N1 - T2 - Pediatric Practice: Infectious Disease AB - Fever in a young infant is often the only clinical sign of an underlying serious infection. This is particularly true for infants younger than 2–3 months, since they lack many of the clinical signs typically used by clinicians to judge general appearance. Although most well-appearing febrile infants in this age group have a benign; self-limited illness, as many as 10% have serious bacterial illness, including 3% with bacteremia and bacterial meningitis.1–9 Thus, fever is an important symptom for identifying infants who need immediate evaluation and treatment. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6910956 ER -