Lebel Asaf, Ashkenazi-Hoffnung Liat, Shkalim Vered, Ben-Zvi Haim, Dotan Miri, Bilavsky Efraim
a Department of Pediatrics B , Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel , Petach Tikva ;
b Sackler Faculty of Medicine , Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv ;
Infect Dis (Lond). 2016;48(5):403-5. doi: 10.3109/23744235.2015.1122226. Epub 2015 Dec 4.
Adenovirus is a common pediatric pathogen responsible for a wide variety of infections. Despite this, secondary bacteremia following an adenovirus infection has not been previously systematically described. Herein, we describe seven cases of secondary bacteremia following an adenovirus infection in hospitalized children during an 8-year period. Pediatricians should be informed of this serious complication.