An epidemic of gastroenteritis and mild necrotizing enterocolitis in two neonatal units of a University Hospital in Rome, Italy

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 455-465

  Faustini, A ^a   Forastiere, F ^a   Rossi, P Giorgi ^b   Perucci, C A ^a  

^a Local Health Authority RME   (Italy)

^b Agency for Public Health   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFECTION; ITALY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NONSURGICAL INVASIVE THERAPY; ONSET AGE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BIRTH WEIGHT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; ROME;

EID: 2642548106     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268804002006     Document Type: Article

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