Urinary tract infection in very low birth weight preterm infants

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 426-429

  Bauer, Sofia ^a,b   Eliakim, Alon ^a,b   Pomeranz, Avishalom ^a,b   Regev, Rivka ^a,b   Litmanovits, Ita ^a,b   Arnon, Shmuel ^a,b   Huri, Haim ^a,b   Dolfin, Tzipora ^a  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Preterm infants; Renal ultrasound; Urinary tract infection; Voiding cystourethrography

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; ISRAEL; MALE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0037572082     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-200305000-00007     Document Type: Review

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