Potential substitution of cord blood for infant blood in the neonatal sepsis evaluation

Biology of the Neonate

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 12-18

  Hansen, Anne ^a   Forbes, Peter ^a   Buck, Rosanne ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood culture; Neonatal sepsis; Umbilical cord blood; White blood cell band count

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VENOUS BLOOD;

BLOOD CELL COUNT; COHORT STUDIES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 21344447239     PISSN: 00063126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083946     Document Type: Article

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