Clinical features
Features of infection may include:
- pyrexia - often low grade and variable
- irritability
- symptoms of the original illness that the shunt was treating
- rarely there may be erythema over the shunt itself
Most of these features are non-specific, and often reliance must be placed on a high index of suspicion and the parent's or patient's assertion that they are "Not right".
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