Reduction of unnecessary antibiotic therapy in newborn infants using interleukin-8 and C-reactive protein as markers of bacterial infections

Pediatrics

Volumn 104, Issue 3 I, 1999, Pages 447-453

  Franz, Axel R ^a,b   Steinbach, Gerald ^a   Kron, Martina ^a   Pohlandt, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood culture; C reactive protein; Costs; Immature to total neutrophil ratio; Interleukin 8; Newborn infant; Nosocomial bacterial infection; Preterm; Sepsis; Term

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 8;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CELL MATURATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUTROPHIL; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-8; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032878740     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.104.3.447     Document Type: Article

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