Exchange transfusion or intravenous immunoglobulin therapy as an adjunct to antibiotics for neonatal sepsis in developing countries: A pilot study

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-42

  Güneş, Tamer ^a   Koklu, Esad ^a   Buyukkayhan, Derya ^a   Kurtoglu, Selim ^a   Karakukcu, Musa ^a   Patiroglu, Turkan ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIBIOTICS; DEVELOPING WORLD; NEONATE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PILOT STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644530702     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532806X90592     Document Type: Article

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