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Blood culture versus antibiotic use for neonatal inpatients in 61 hospitals implementing with the NEST360 Alliance in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Thirty million small and sick newborns worldwide require inpatient care each year. Many receive antibiotics for clinically diagnosed infections without blood cultures, the current ‘gold standard’ for neonatal infection detection. Low neonatal blood culture use hampers appropriate antibio...

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Autores principales: Murless-Collins, Sarah, Kawaza, Kondwani, Salim, Nahya, Molyneux, Elizabeth M., Chiume, Msandeni, Aluvaala, Jalemba, Macharia, William M., Ezeaka, Veronica Chinyere, Odedere, Opeyemi, Shamba, Donat, Tillya, Robert, Penzias, Rebecca E., Ezenwa, Beatrice Nkolika, Ohuma, Eric O., Cross, James H., Lawn, Joy E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10652421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37968606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-04343-0