Profile of neonatal septicaemia at a district-level sick newborn care unit

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-48

  Viswanathan, Rajlakshmi ^a   Singh, Arun K ^a   Ghosh, Chiranjib ^b   Dasgupta, Sudipta ^a   Mukherjee, Suchandra ^a   Basu, Sulagna ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Suri Sadar Hospital   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Blood culture; India; Intensive care; Neonatal; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84860557503     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3329/jhpn.v30i1.11274     Document Type: Article

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