A controversial necrotizing enterocolitis outbreak in a neonatal unit (multiple letters) [1]

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1143-1146

  Orsi, Giovanni B ^a   Fara, Gaetano Maria ^a   Faustini, Annunziata ^b   Forastiere, Francesco ^b   Rossi, Paolo Giorgi ^c   Perucci, Carlo A ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ASL RME   (Italy)

^c ASP Lazio   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN DISEASE; ONSET AGE; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; X RAY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; NECROSIS;

EID: 28244453371     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805215510     Document Type: Letter

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