An outbreak of neonatal deaths in Brazil associated with contaminated intravenous fluids

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 81-86

  Garrett, Denise O ^a   Clifford McDonald, L ^a   Wanderley, Ailton ^b   Wanderley, Celeste ^c   Miller, Phyllis ^a   Carr, Janice ^a   Arduino, Matthew ^a   Sehulster, Lynne ^a   Anderson, Roger ^a   Jarvis, William R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Secretaria de Estado de Educação e Desporto de Roraima   (Brazil)

^c Hospital Nossa Senhora de Nazare   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DILUENT; ENDOTOXIN; GLUCOSE; INFUSION FLUID; WATER;

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAZIL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG QUALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; ENDOTOXINS; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NURSERIES, HOSPITAL; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 0036642442     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341083     Document Type: Article

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