A Controlled Trial of Intravenous Immune Globulin to Reduce Nosocomial Infections in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants
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- 21 April 1994
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 330 (16) , 1107-1113
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199404213301602
Abstract
Nosocomial infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in premature infants. As a rule, their low serum gamma globulin levels at birth subsequently decline to hypogammaglobulinemic values; hence, prophylactic administration of intravenous immune globulin may reduce the rate of hospital-acquired infections.Keywords
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