American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 201, Issue 1 , Pages 38.e1-38.e6 , July 2009

Epidemiology and risk factors for early onset sepsis among very-low-birthweight infants

Presented at the Joint Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies and the Asian Society for Pediatric Research, Honolulu, HI, May 2-6, 2008.

  • Gil Klinger, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neonatal Intensive Care, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • Department of Pediatrics, the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprints: Gil Klinger, MD, Department of Neonatology, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, 14 Kaplan St., Petah Tiqva, 49202, Israel
    • ,
  • Itzhak Levy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Disease Unit, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • Department of Pediatrics, the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Lea Sirota, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neonatal Intensive Care, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • Department of Pediatrics, the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Valentina Boyko, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Women and Children's Health Research Unit, Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
    • ,
  • Brian Reichman, MBChB

      Affiliations

    • Women and Children's Health Research Unit, Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
    • Department of Pediatrics, the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Liat Lerner-Geva, MD

      Affiliations

    • Women and Children's Health Research Unit, Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
    • Department of Epidemiology, the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Israel Neonatal Network

Received 8 November 2008 ,Revised 7 January 2009 ,Accepted 4 March 2009.

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 The Israel National VLBW infant database is partially funded by the Israel Center for Disease Control and the Israel Ministry of Health.

 Cite this article as: Klinger G, Levy I, Sirota L, et al. Epidemiology and risk factors for early onset sepsis among very-low-birthweight infants. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2009;201:38.e1-6.

PII: S0002-9378(09)00240-3

doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2009.03.006

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 201, Issue 1 , Pages 38.e1-38.e6 , July 2009

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