Should All Children Admitted with Community Acquired Pneumonia have Blood Cultures Taken?

Time to Positivity of Blood Cultures Supports Antibiotic De-escalation at 48 Hours

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Prevalence of Bacteremia in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients With Community-acquired Pneumonia

(2013) Angela L. Myers et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

The Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Infants and Children Older Than 3 Months of Age: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America

(2011) John S. Bradley et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

British Thoracic Society guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in children: update 2011

(2011) M. Harris et al.   THORAX

Guidelines on Blood Cultures

(2010) Michael Lloyd Towns et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY AND INFECTION

Usefulness of initial blood cultures in patients admitted with pneumonia from an emergency department in Japan

(2009) Toshikazu Abe et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY