Neonatal Septicemia in Nepal: Early-Onset versus Late-Onset
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Neonatal Septicemia in Nepal: Early-Onset versus Late-Onset
Introduction. Neonatal septicemia is defined as infection in the first 28 days of life. Early-onset neonatal septicemia and late-onset neonatal septicemia are defined as illnesses appearing from birth to three days and from four to twenty-eight days postnatally, respectively. Methods. In this cross-sectional study, blood samples from the suspected infants were collected and processed in the bac...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1687-9740,1687-9759
DOI: 10.1155/2015/379806