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Effect of 4 % chlorhexidine on cord colonization among hospital and community births in India: a randomized controlled study

BACKGROUND: Infections are the single most important cause of neonatal mortality in developing countries. Results from trials in Asia evaluating the effect of chlorhexidine on neonatal mortality have been encouraging but limited data are available on the impact of cord cleansing on bacterial coloniz...

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Autores principales: Nangia, Sushma, Dhingra, Usha, Dhingra, Pratibha, Dutta, Arup, Menon, Venugopal P., Black, Robert E., Sazawal, Sunil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27484013
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-016-0625-7