Bacillus species sepsis in the neonatal intensive care unit

Journal of Infection

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 390-395

  Adler, Amos ^a,b   Gottesman, Giora ^a,b   Dolfin, Tzipora ^a,b   Arnon, Shmuel ^a,b   Regev, Rivka ^a,b   Bauer, Sophia ^a,b   Litmanovitz, Ita ^a,b  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacillus species sepsis; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Neonatal intensive care unit; Percutaneous central venous catheter

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; MEROPENEM; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS;

EID: 29444441155     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2004.12.006     Document Type: Article

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