Aetiology, risk factors and immediate outcome of bacteriologically confirmed neonatal septicaemia in Mulago hospital, Uganda

African Health Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 120-126

  Mugalu, J ^a   Nakakeeto, M K ^a   Kiguli, S ^a   Kaddu Mulindwa, Deo H ^b  

^a MULAGO HOSPITAL   (Uganda)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PUS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UGANDA; UMBILICAL CORD;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UGANDA;

EID: 34347391693     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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