Necrotizing enterocolitis is associated with ureaplasma colonization in preterm infants

Pediatric Research

Volumn 69, Issue 5 PART 1, 2011, Pages 442-447

  Okogbule Wonodi, Adora C ^a   Gross, George W ^a   Sun, Chen Chih J ^a   Agthe, Alexander G ^a   Xiao, Li ^b   Waites, Ken B ^b   Viscardi, Rose Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOMETACIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; TRACHEA; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UREAPLASMA; VASCULITIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BALTIMORE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; ODDS RATIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS;

EID: 79954574514     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e3182111827     Document Type: Article

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