Experience of Setting up a microbiology service for rural facility-based sick newborn care unit

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-81

  Viswanathan, Rajlakshmi ^a   Singh, Arun ^a   Ghosh, Chiranjib ^b   Mukherjee, Suchandra ^a   Sardar, Syamal ^a   Basu, Sulagna ^c  

^a Institute of Post Graduate Medical   (India)

^b Suri Sadar Hospital   (India)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEFOTAXIME; GENTAMICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BLOOD CULTURE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT INFORMATION; RURAL AREA; SEPSIS; URBAN AREA;

FEMALE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MALE; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 84863393571     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmr027     Document Type: Letter

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