Urinary tract infection in neonates with serious bacterial infections admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 101-105

  Barton, M ^a   Bell, Y ^a   Thame, M ^a   Nicholson, A ^a   Trotman, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; FEVER; GENDER BIAS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IRRITABILITY; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; KLEBSIELLA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEPSIS; SEX RATIO; SOLITARY KIDNEY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; WEST INDIES;

EID: 48449102572     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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