Neonatal infections in China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Thailand

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2012, Pages F249-F255

  Al Taiar, Abdullah ^a   Hammoud, Majeda S ^a   Cuiqing, Liu ^b   Lee, Jimmy K F ^c   Lui, Kin Man ^d   Nakwan, Narongsak ^e   Isaacs, David ^f  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b Department of Neonatology   (China)

^c Hospital Kuala Terengganu   (Malaysia)

^d Estrada Do Visconde de Sao Januario   (China)

^e Department of Paediatrics   (Thailand)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CASE FATALITY RATE; CHINA; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILOBASIDIELLA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HONG KONG; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KLEBSIELLA; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA; SERRATIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; THAILAND; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; SEPSIS;

CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALAYSIA; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; THAILAND;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879522397     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-301767     Document Type: Article

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