The effects of different infectious organisms on platelet counts and platelet indices in neonates with sepsis: Is there an organism-specific response? [3]

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 388-391

  Akarsu, Saadet ^a   Taskin, Erdal ^a   Kilic, Mehmet ^a   Ozdiller, Sukran ^a   Gurgoze, Metin Kaya ^a   Yilmaz, Erdal ^a   Aygun, A Denizmen ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RANK SUM TEST; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

APGAR SCORE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD PLATELETS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 31044435336     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmi031     Document Type: Letter

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