Histological chorioamnionitis - Implication for bacterial colonization, laboratory markers of infection, and early onset sepsis in very-low-birth-weight neonates

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 364-368

  Robert Lee, Shing Yan ^a   Leung, Chi Wai ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

bacterial colonization; C reactive protein; congenital sepsis; Histological chorioamnionitis; neutrophilia; newborns; very low birth weight

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CITROBACTER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENT EXAMINATION; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KLEBSIELLA; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORGANELLA MORGANII; NEUTROPHILIA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; ROSEOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STOMACH LAVAGE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

AGE OF ONSET; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 84858675542     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2011.579208     Document Type: Review

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