New technologies for the rapid diagnosis of neonatal sepsis

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Srinivasan, Lakshmi ^a,b   Harris, Mary C ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnosis; infant; infection; newborn; sepsis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD11B ANTIGEN; CD64 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; PROCALCITONIN; SERUM AMYLOID A; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VALIDITY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOMICS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84859097918     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: 1531698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e3283504df3     Document Type: Review

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