Should a neonate with possible late onset infection always have a lumbar puncture?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-76

  Malbon, K ^a   Mohan, R ^a   Nicholl, R ^a  

^a NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD DEATH; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 30344439125     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2005.087551     Document Type: Note

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