Predictors of positive blood culture and deaths among neonates with suspected neonatal sepsis in a tertiary hospital, Mwanza- Tanzania

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kayange, Neema ^a   Kamugisha, Erasmus ^b   Mwizamholya, Damas L ^a   Jeremiah, Seni ^b   Mshana, Stephen E ^b  

^a Bugando Medical Centre   (Tanzania)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYANOSIS; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HUMAN; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECONIUM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PREDICTION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TANZANIA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN DISEASE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TANZANIA;

EID: 77954042696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-10-39     Document Type: Article

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