Community management of neonatal infections

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9979, 2015, Pages 1706-1709

  Nair, Harish ^a,b   Campbell, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; GENTAMICIN; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMMUNITY CARE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT DURATION; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; TACHYPNEA;

AMOXICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; MALE; PENICILLIN G PROCAINE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TACHYPNEA;

EID: 84929029291     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60204-5     Document Type: Note

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