Treatment of neonatal sepsis with intravenous immune globulin

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1201-1211

  Brocklehurst, Peter ^a   Farrell, Barbara ^a   King, Andrew ^a   Juszczak, Edmund ^a   Darlow, Brian ^b   Haque, Khalid ^c,d   Salt, Alison ^e   Stenson, Ben ^f   TarnowMordi, William ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PLACEBO;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 80053367664     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1100441     Document Type: Article

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