C-reactive protein: A useful marker for guiding duration of antibiotic therapy in suspected neonatal septicaemia?

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 269-275

  Al Zwaini, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD   (Iraq)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; FEVER; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; IRAQ; JAUNDICE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PREDICTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RELAPSE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYPNEA; TREATMENT DURATION; VOMITING; BLOOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG MONITORING; IMMUNOLOGY; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; STANDARD; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRAQ; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SPECTINOMYCIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 68249132846     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26719/2009.15.2.269     Document Type: Article

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