Twenty-Five Year Trend Change in the Etiology of Pediatric Invasive Bacterial Infections in Korea, 1996–2020
Seung Ha Song, Hyunju Lee, Hoan Jong Lee, Eun Song Song, Jong Gyun Ahn, Su Eun Park, Taek-Jin Lee, Hye‐Kyung Cho, Jina Lee, Yae‐Jean Kim, Dae Sun Jo, Jong‐Hyun Kim, Hyun Mi Kang, Joon Kee Lee, Chun Soo Kim, Dong Hyun Kim, Hwang Min Kim, Jae Hong Choi, Byung Wook Eun, Nam Hee Kim, Eun Young Cho, Yun Kyung Kim, Chi Eun Oh, Kyung‐Hyo Kim, Sang Hyuk, Hyun Joo Jung, Kun Song Lee, Kwang Nam Kim, Eun Hwa Choi
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has contributed to the change in the epidemiology of many infectious diseases. This study aimed to establish the pre-pandemic epidemiology of pediatric invasive bacterial infection (IBI). METHODS: species) in immunocompetent children > 3 months of age were collected at 29 centers. The annual trend in the proportion of IBIs by each pathogen was analyzed. RESULTS: = 0.005). CONCLUSION: in children > 3 months of age. These findings can be used as the baseline data to navigate the trend in the epidemiology of pediatric IBI in the post COVID-19 era.