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Microbial characteristics and severity of coagulase-negative staphylococcal septicaemia in premature neonates
T J Neal1, G Jawaheer, N J Shaw
1Regional Public Health Laboratory, Fazakerley Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
Early Human Development
|August 18, 1995
Abstract:
A pilot study was undertaken to assess the predictive value of characteristics possessed by coagulase-negative staphylococci in determining clinically important infection in premature neonates. No significant association was demonstrated between organism properties and clinical indices of infection. The routine use of simple measures of microbial characteristics in the assessment of neonatal septicaemia is not warranted.