Breast milk causing neonatal sepsis and death

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1796-1798

  Widger, J ^a   O'Connell, N H ^a   Stack, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fatal outcome; Human milk; Late onset septicaemia

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; TEICOPLANIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BREAST MILK; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78349302984     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03071.x     Document Type: Article

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