Cytokine profile in a premature infant with systemic Bacillus cereus infection

Pediatrics International

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Saito, Mari ^a   Takahashi, Naoto ^a   Ueda, Shigeko ^b   Kuwabara, Yoshihiro ^b   Komiyama, Mami ^a   Koike, Yasunori ^a   Yada, Yukari ^a   Honma, Yoko ^a   Momoi, Mariko Y ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA NUTRITION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Cytokine; exotoxin; Premature infant

Indexed keywords

CEFOZOPRAN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS INFECTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEATH; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

BACILLACEAE INFECTIONS; BACILLUS CEREUS; CYTOKINES; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PHOSPHOLIPASES; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 76249107824     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2009.02987.x     Document Type: Article

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