Empirical antibiotic treatment and the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis and death in very low birth weight neonates

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 521-526

  Abdel Ghany, Eman A ^a,b   Ali, Aliaa A ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Cairo University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84868665226     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 09754466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2012.521     Document Type: Article

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