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Early-onset neonatal sepsis and the implementation of group B streptococcus prophylaxis in a Brazilian maternity hospital: a descriptive study

OBJECTIVES: To describe early-onset neonatal sepsis (EOS) epidemiology in a public maternity hospital in Brasilia, Brazil. METHODS: We defined EOS as a positive blood culture result obtained from infants aged ≤72 hours of life plus treatment with antibiotic therapy for ≥5 days. Incidence was calcula...

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Autores principales: Freitas, Felipe Teixeira de Mello, Romero, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9425498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27875686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjid.2016.09.013