ACTA PAEDIATRICA JAPONICA, cilt.40, sa.5, ss.441-445, 1998 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: With the aim of establishing the role of blunt trauma, a trauma without any fracture or obvious wound, as a risk factor in children who were admitted for community-acquired severe staphylococcal septicemia with various organ involvement, 63 patients were investigated during a seven-year study period. All children were previously healthy.