Effect of the systemic inflammatory response on biochemical markers of neonatal bacterial infection: A fresh look at old confounders

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-22

  Escobar, Gabriel J ^a  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROCALCITONIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0037230465     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/49.1.21     Document Type: Editorial

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