Clinical characteristics of nosocomial infections in neonatal intensive care unit in eastern China

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 431-437

  Xu, Xue Feng ^a   Ma, Xiao Lu ^a   Chen, Zheng ^a   Shi, Li Ping ^a   Du, Li Zhong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; China; Gram negative bacteria; neonatal intensive care unit; nosocomial infections; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERITIS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PLEURISY; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 77954573076     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2010.063     Document Type: Article

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