Accuracy of white blood cell count, C-reactive protein, interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor alpha for diagnosing late neonatal sepsis

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 536-542

  Caldas, Jamil P S ^a   Marba, Sérgio T M ^a,b   Blotta, Maria H S L ^a   Calil, Roseli ^a   Morais, Sirlei S ^a   Oliveira, Rômulo T D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNICAMP ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

C reactive protein; Cytokine; Inflammatory mediators; Interleukin 6; Neonate; Sepsis; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LATE NEONATAL SEPSIS; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; SEPSIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 57349091159     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/JPED.1838     Document Type: Article

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