Is infection a factor in neonatal encephalopathy?

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2015, Pages F8-F10

  Nelson, Karin B ^a,b   Penn, Anna A ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEWBORN INFECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); BRAIN DISEASES; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

BRAIN DISEASES; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 84919783337     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306192     Document Type: Article

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