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We sought to externally validate this decision rule.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>METHODS:<\/jats:title><jats:p>We conducted a secondary analysis of a multicenter prospective cohort of febrile infants \u226460 days old presenting to the emergency department between December 2008 and May 2013. Infants were excluded if they had clinical sepsis or chronic conditions or were missing any laboratory components of the Aronson score. Our outcome was IBI (bacteremia and\/or bacterial meningitis). We assessed the accuracy of the Aronson rule by reporting metrics of diagnostic accuracy with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) at different point thresholds.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>RESULTS:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Of 4130 included patients (780 &amp;lt;21 days of age; 2362 boys), 87 (2.1%) had an IBI, including 65 with isolated bacteremia and 22 with meningitis. Using an Aronson cutoff score of 2 resulted in a sensitivity of 93.1% (95% CI 85.6%\u201397.4%), specificity of 26.6% (95% CI 25.3%\u201328.0%), and negative predictive value of 99.4% (95% CI 98.8%\u201399.8%). Six patients with IBI (3 with bacterial meningitis) were misclassified as low risk when using a threshold of 2.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>CONCLUSIONS:<\/jats:title><jats:p>The Aronson rule demonstrates metrics of diagnostic accuracy that are comparable to the derivation study. 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