Neonatal bloodstream infections in a pediatric hospital in Vietnam: A cohort study

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 483-488

  Kruse, Alexandra Yasmin ^a   Thieu Chuong, Do Huu ^b   Phuong, Cam Ngoc ^b   Duc, Than ^b   Graff Stensballe, Lone ^a   Prag, Jorgen ^c   Kurtzhals, Jorgen ^a,d   Greisen, Gorm ^a,d   Pedersen, Freddy Karup ^a,d  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b Pediatric Hospital No 1   (Viet Nam)

^c VIBORG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bloodstream infections; Developing country; Mortality; Neonate; Septicemia; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PEFLOXACIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; TIMENTIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISK DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIET NAM;

BLOODSTREAM INFECTIONS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; MORTALITY; NEONATE; SEPTICEMIA; VIETNAM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIETNAM;

EID: 84887624955     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmt056     Document Type: Article

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