Severe child abuse presenting as polymicrobial bacteremia.
Life-threatening polymicrobial bacteremia in a 7 1/2-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.
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Department of Paediatrics G, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018805:Sepsis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology