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Late-Onset Sepsis in Very Low Birth Weight Neonates: The Experience of the NICHD Neonatal Research Network

PEDIATRICS · 2002 · Vol. 110(2) · pp. 285–291

Barbara J. Stoll✉(Emory University)Nellie I. Hansen(Research Triangle Park Foundation)Avroy A. Fanaroff(Case Western Reserve University)Linda L. Wright(Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)Waldemar A. Carlo(University of Alabama at Birmingham)Richard A. Ehrenkranz(Yale University)James A. Lemons(Indiana University School of Medicine)Edward F. Donovan(University of Cincinnati Medical Center)Ann R. Stark(Boston Children's Hospital)Jon E. Tyson(Center for Clinical Research (United States))William Oh(Brown University)Charles R. Bauer(University of Miami)Sheldon B. Korones(University of Tennessee at Knoxville)Seetha Shankaran(Wayne State University)Abbot R. Laptook(The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)David K. Stevenson(Stanford Medicine)Lu-Ann Papile(University of New Mexico)W. Kenneth Poole(RTI International)

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Abstract

Late-onset sepsis remains an important risk factor for death among VLBW preterm infants and for prolonged hospital stay among VLBW survivors. Strategies to reduce late-onset sepsis and its medical, social, and economic toll need to be addressed urgently.

Neonatal and Maternal Infections Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicineSepsisGestational agePediatricsNecrotizing enterocolitisBronchopulmonary dysplasiaBirth weightLow birth weightIncidence (geometry)Neonatal sepsis

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Anti-Infective AgentsFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornInfant, PrematureInfant, Premature, DiseasesMaleRegistriesRisk FactorsIncidenceSurvival AnalysisSepsisInfant, Very Low Birth Weight

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