Blood culture confirmed bacterial sepsis in neonates in a north Indian tertiary care center: Changes over the last decade

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-50

  Sundaram, Venkataseshan ^a   Kumar, Praveen ^a   Dutta, Sourabh ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Kaya ^a   Ray, Pallab ^a   Gautam, Vikas ^a   Narang, Anil ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PATHOGENESIS; RISK REDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREND STUDY; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BACTEREMIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 63149193917     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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