A study on blood culture positivity and C-reactive protein variability in neonatal septicaemia at neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 920-925

  Bhattacharyya, Kumkum ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Maitreyi ^a   Karmakar, Balai Chandra ^a,b   Bhattacharya, Sujata ^a   Banerjee, Parthajit ^a   Chatterjee, Sumanta ^a   Dutta, Riju ^a,c  

^a R G KAR MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Department of Paediatric Medicine ^*  (India)

^c West Bengal Public Health Laboratory   (India)

Author keywords

Antibiotic susceptibility; Blood culture; C reactive protein; Septicaemia

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFOTAXIME; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DISK DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PSEUDOMONAS; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84872243618     PISSN: 00195847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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