Neonatal Sepsis: A 6-Year Analysis in a Neonatal Care Unit in Taiwan

Pediatrics and Neonatology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 88-95

  Wu, Jun Ho ^a,b   Chen, Chien Yi ^b   Tsao, Po Nien ^b   Hsieh, Wu Shiun ^b   Chou, Hung Chieh ^b  

^a TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

neonatal intensive care unit; neonatal sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DISEASE COURSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PREMATURITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TAIWAN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MORBIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; TAIWAN;

EID: 67650727164     PISSN: 18759572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1875-9572(09)60042-5     Document Type: Article

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