Seventy-five years of neonatal sepsis at Yale: 1928-2003

Pediatrics

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 595-602

  Bizzarro, Matthew J ^a   Raskind, Craig ^a,b   Baltimore, Robert S ^a   Gallagher, Patrick G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Commensal species; Low birth weight; Neonate; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; BACTEREMIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CROSS INFECTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; TIME;

BACTEREMIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33644616250     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-0552     Document Type: Article

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