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Abstract. During a 12-month period 80 children >3 months of age seen at an emergency room with acute fevers Is greater than or equal to 39.7 C (103.5 F) and no localizing signs of infection were studied using blood and buffy coat cultures to isolate bacteria and viruses. Bacteremia was identified in three children (3.8%): two with Streptococcus pneumoniae and one with Neisseria meningitidis. Two children with viremia were identified: both isolates were ECHO virus, types 11 and 21, respectively. Fifty-eight of the study children (72%) were seen again in 24 to 48 hours and 27/58 (46%) were afebrile and completely well. No differences in sex, age, or initial WBC count existed among these children who returned afebrile and well and those with either localized disease or those persistently febrile. Pediatrics 68:157-160, 1981; fever, bacteremia, viremia, outcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The recognition of environmental sounds is an important feature of higher auditory processing and essential for everyday life. The present study aimed to investigate the potential impairment of this mental function in schizophrenia. This work on immediate sound recognition is complementary to recent studies on auditory linguistic processing. Fifteen schizophrenic patients and 30 control subjects were asked to identify 43 complex environmental sounds from different categories and rate their familiarity when naïve to the sounds. In consecutive experiments, patients and control subjects rated the sounds according to emotional valence and arousal, as well as imageability. In both groups, correct identification of non-verbal sounds was highly associated with familiarity. Statistical analysis by group demonstrated a significantly higher error rate in identifying sounds in patients suffering from schizophrenia compared to healthy control subjects. In contrast, the affective recognition of the complex sounds was preserved in the schizophrenic patients. These results suggest a disturbance of higher-order, auditory mnemonic processing in schizophrenic patients in the non-linguistic domain. We discuss their abnormal responses in the context of recent theories of auditory physiological and semantic processing deficits in schizophrenia. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]