Diagnostic value of C-reactive protein and haematological parameters in neonatal sepsis

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 152-156

  Ahmed, Zeeshan ^c   Ghafoor, Tariq ^a   Waqar, Talal ^c   Ali, Salman ^c   Aziz, Shahid ^c   Mahmud, Shahid ^b  

^a Combined Military Hospital ^*  (Pakistan)

^b PAF Hospital   (Pakistan)

^c MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Investigations; Neonatal sepsis; Sepsis screen

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CALCULATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL VACUOLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEGENERATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUTROPHIL; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH SUCTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; PAKISTAN; PLATELET COUNT; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 17744378766     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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