International perspective on early-onset neonatal sepsis

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 501-523

  Ganatra, Hammad A ^a   Stoll, Barbara J ^b   Zaidi, Anita K M ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Early onset; Infection; Neonate; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORHEXIDINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; TETANUS TOXOID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BREAST MILK; CELLULAR IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LABORATORY TEST; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN PERIOD; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NEWBORN TETANUS; OMPHALITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTNATAL CARE; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; HEALTH; INFANT MORTALITY; MICROBIOLOGY; SEPSIS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 77953533229     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2010.02.004     Document Type: Review

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