A Single Blood Culture for Confirmation of the Diagnosis of Neonatal Septicemia
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- 1 February 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 57 (2) , 215-219
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/57.2.215
Abstract
A retrospective study of 366 neonates from whom blood was drawn and cultured revealed 56 infants with positive cultures. Twenty-eight neonates were considered to have septicemia, and a single blood culture provided satisfactory confirmation of the septicemia in each of these cases.Keywords
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