Emerging viral infections in neonatal intensive care unit

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 156-158

  Tzialla, Chryssoula ^a   Civardi, Elisa ^a   Borghesi, Alessandro ^a   Sarasini, Antonella ^a   Baldanti, Fausto ^a   Stronati, Mauro ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Neonate; NICU; Outbreaks; Virus

Indexed keywords

PALIVIZUMAB;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA BASE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAND WASHING; HIGH RISK INFANT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NOROVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; INCIDENCE; INFANT; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; STOMACH DISEASE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 80053263261     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2011.607588     Document Type: Article

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