Neonatal sepsis: An old issue needing new answers

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 503-505

  Molyneux, Elizabeth ^a   Gest, Al ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LACTOFERRIN; PROCALCITONIN; ZINC; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD VOLUME; BREAST MILK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; SEPSIS; TRENDS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; SEPSIS;

EID: 84928103560     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)70143-X     Document Type: Note

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