Painless blood testing to prevent neonatal sepsis

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 321-322

  Costakos, Dennis T ^a,b   Walden, Jennifier ^a   Rinzel, Mary Therese ^a,c   Dahlen, Lynn ^a  

^a Franciscan Skemp/Mayo Hlthcare S   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c VITERBO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CULTURE; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PREGNANCY; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UMBILICUS;

EID: 76149094139     PISSN: 10981861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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