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Empirical antibiotic treatment and the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis and death in very low birth weight neonates

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Antibiotics are one of the most overused drugs in the neonatal unit. Our objective was to assess associations between the duration of the initial antibiotic course and subsequent necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and/or death in very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates with ste...

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Autores principales: Abdel Ghany, Eman A., Ali, Aliaa A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22871623
http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2012.521