Early-onset infections of very-low-birth-weight infants in Polish neonatal intensive care units

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 691-695

  Wójkowska Mach, Jadwiga ^a   Borszewska Kornacka, Maria ^b   Domańska, Joanna ^c   Gadzinowski, Jausz ^d   Gulczyńska, Ewa ^e   Helwich, Ewa ^f   Kordek, Agieszka ^g   Pawlik, Dorota ^a   Szczapa, Jerzy ^d   Klamka, Jerzy ^c   Heczko, Piotr B ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^e POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^f INSTITUTE OF MOTHER AND CHILD   (Poland)

^g POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Early onset infections; Poland; Surveillance; Very low birth weight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RISK INDEX; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN EARLY ONSET INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINITIS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MYCOSES; POLAND; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84862776210     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3182567b74     Document Type: Article

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