Nosocomial infection in small for gestational age newborns with birth weight <1500 g: A multicentre analysis

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Bartels, Dorothee B ^a   Schwab, Frank ^b   Geffers, Christine ^b   Poets, Christian F ^c   Gastmeier, Petra ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 35748972026     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.114504     Document Type: Article

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