Use of leukocyte counts in evaluation of early-onset neonatal sepsis

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-19

  Murphy, Kara ^a   Weiner, Joel ^a  

^a UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

antibiotics; early onset sepsis; I:T ratio; white blood cell count

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; GENTAMICIN;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EARLY ONSET NEONATAL SEPSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; IMMATURE TO TOTAL NEUTROPHIL RATIO; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROCOCCUS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

AGE OF ONSET; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD; COHORT STUDIES; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; NEUTROPHILS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84860389308     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31822ffc17     Document Type: Review

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