Septicemic neonates without lumbar puncture: What are we missing?

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-65

  Hoque, Mahbubul ^a   Ahmed, A S M Nawshad Uddin ^a,d   Chowdhury, M A K Azad ^a   Darmstadt, Gary L ^b,c   Saha, Samir K ^a,b  

^a DHAKA SHISHU HOSPITAL   (Bangladesh)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United States)

^d Kumudini Women's Medical College and Hospital   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BANGLADESH; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL PUNCTURE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 31744433601     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmi043     Document Type: Article

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