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Severe Child Abuse Presenting as Polymicrobial Bacteremia
Author(s) -
KOCH CHRISTIAN,
HØIBY NIELS
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1988.tb10789.x
Subject(s) - medicine , bacteremia , etiology , otitis , sister , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , surgery , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , sociology , anthropology , biology
. Life‐threatening polymicrobial bacteremia in a 71/2‐year‐old boy, was found to be caused by willful contamination of i.v. drips by the mother. The boy, as well as his diseased twin sister, had histories of long‐lasting chronic otitis of unknown etiology. The importance of obvious pathologic psycho‐social factors was overlooked, and diagnosis was only reached by close collaboration with clinical microbiologists.