Laboratory medicine in neonatal sepsis and inflammation

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue SUPPL.4, 2012, Pages 24-26

  Mussap, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

C reactive protein (CRP); Healthcare cost containment; Micro erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR); Neonatal sepsis; Newborn specific narrative interpretation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; METABOLOMICS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84866102173     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2012.715000     Document Type: Article

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