Neonatal septicemia in high risk babies in South-Eastern Nigeria

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 166-172

  Ojukwu, Juliana U ^a   Abonyi, Leonard E ^a   Ugwu, Jude ^a   Orji, Ikechukwu K ^a  

^a EBONYI STATE UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Antibiotic pattern; High risk newborns; Septicemia

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; GENTAMICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELIVERY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAND WASHING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAUNDICE; LABOR; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; NURSING; OBSTETRIC CARE; ONSET AGE; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33644820278     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2006.030     Document Type: Article

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