Pathogen-specific mortality in very low birth weight infants with primary bloodstream infection
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Pathogen-specific mortality in very low birth weight infants with primary bloodstream infection
OBJECTIVE Mortality in very low birth weight infants following microbiology confirmed primary bloodstream infections varies with the type of causative pathogen. Given evidence from other studies that infections with gram negative bacteria and fungi cause a higher case fatality risk. We tried to confirm this in a nation-wide multi-center trial. METHODS A cohort of 55,465 very low birth weight ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180134