Clinical and bacteriological profile of neonatal septicemia in a tertiary level pediatric hospital in Bangladesh

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1034-1039

  Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, A S M ^a,b   Azad Chowdhury, M A K ^a,b   Hoque, Mahbul ^a,b   Darmstadt, Gary L ^b  

^a DHAKA SHISHU HOSPITAL   (Bangladesh)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Neonate; Septicemia

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APNEA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVULSION; CYANOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; IRRITABILITY; JAUNDICE; KLEBSIELLA; LETHARGY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VOMITING;

AGE OF ONSET; BANGLADESH; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 0036854261     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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