Neonatal sepsis: Looking beyond the blood culture

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-14

  Decamp, Lisa Ross ^a   Dempsey, Amanda F ^b   Tarini, Beth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLOOD CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD; DNA PRIMERS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS;

EID: 61449098489     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2008.515     Document Type: Note

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