In a population-based observational study of 285 patients with positive blood culture for pneumococci, we found that the course and outcome of invasive pneumococcal infections differ considerably between adults and children. None of the children died, whereas the infection was fatal for 15% (35/229) of the adults (P<0.001). The differences are only partly explained by the underlying conditions.
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