Study of Umbilical Cord Blood Culture in Diagnosis of Early-onset Sepsis Among Newborns with High-risk Factors

CONTEXT: Blood culture is gold standard for diagnosis of neonatal sepsis. Low sensitivity of blood culture is usually due to small volume of blood sample, intrapartum antibiotics, and antibiotics given to newborn before sampling. AIM: We evaluated use of Umbilical cord blood culture (UCBC) in diagno...

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Autores principales: Kalathia, Mitul Babubhai, Shingala, Prakash Ashokbhai, Parmar, Parin Niranjanbhai, Parikh, Yogesh Narenedrabhai, Kalathia, Ila Mitulkumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24404528
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4847.123092

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24404528
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4847.123092

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