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cord-003822-gbwsplgq	Elmore, Dominique	Is Fever a Red Flag for Bacterial Pneumonia in Children With Viral Bronchiolitis?	2019-08-06		.txt	text/plain	1849	114	42	We conducted a retrospective study of 349 children aged 2 years and younger with diagnoses of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and viral upper respiratory infection. Several previous studies have revealed potential morbidity from bacterial pneumonia in patients with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Following a respiratory season at our institution, we noted that children with viral illness who also had a fever tended to have a worse clinical course versus afebrile patients. Our objective is to investigate whether children with viral bronchiolitis with fever are more likely to have a diagnosis of secondary bacterial pneumonia than their counterparts without fever. The study demonstrates that fever can be used as a marker indicating a need to investigate for secondary bacterial pneumonia in children with RSV and other viral illnesses. Febrile children with viral bronchiolitis were 2 to 8 times more likely to be diagnosed with a secondary bacterial pneumonia compared with their afebrile counterparts.	./cache/cord-003822-gbwsplgq.txt	./txt/cord-003822-gbwsplgq.txt