Rotavirus-Associated Necrotizing Enterocolitis: An Insight into a Potentially Preventable Disease?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 453-457

  Sharma, Renu ^a,b   Garrison, Robert D ^a,b   Tepas III, J J ^a,b   Mollitt, Daniel L ^a,b   Pieper, Pam ^a,b   Hudak, Mark L ^a,b   Bradshaw, James A ^a,b   Stevens, Gary ^a,b   Premachandra, Bangalore R ^a,b  

^a Nemours Children's Clinic ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple organ failure; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Neonates; Rotavirus infection

Indexed keywords

BREAST MILK; COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES; FEEDING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTESTINE SURGERY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTAVIRUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 1542723188     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2003.11.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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