Automated determination of neutrophil volume as screening test for late-onset sepsis in very low birth infants

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 288-

  Raimondi, Francesco ^a   Ferrara, Teresa ^a   Capasso, Letizia ^a   Sellitto, Maria ^a   Landolfo, Francesca ^a   Romano, Antonia ^a   Grimaldi, Ernesto ^b   Scopacasa, Francesco ^b  

^a Department of Pediatrics   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHIL; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; ROTHIA MUCILAGINOSA; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 77649203301     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181c37fb4     Document Type: Letter

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