Umbilical cord blood serum procalcitonin concentration in the diagnosis of early neonatal infection

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 148-153

  Kordek, Agnieszka ^a   Giedrys Kalemba, Stefania ^a   Pawlus, Beata ^a   Podraza, Wojciech ^a   Czajka, Ryszard ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCALCITONIN;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0344519550     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7210885     Document Type: Article

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