A high burden of late-onset sepsis among newborns admitted to the largest neonatal unit in central Vietnam

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 846-851

  Tran, H T ^a,b   Doyle, L W ^b,c   Lee, K J ^b,c   Dang, N M ^a   Graham, S M ^b  

^a Da Nang Hospital for Women and Children   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; OXACILLIN; TICARCILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENTEROBACTER; FATALITY; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIET NAM; BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIETNAM;

EID: 84942987933     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: 14765543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jp.2015.78     Document Type: Article

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