Neonatal sepsis: an international perspective

@article{Vergnano2005NeonatalSA,
  title={Neonatal sepsis: an international perspective},
  author={Stefania Vergnano and Mike Sharland and Peter N Kazembe and Charles C. Mwansambo and Paul T. Heath},
  journal={Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition},
  year={2005},
  volume={90},
  pages={F220 - FF224},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2166499}
}
  • S. VergnanoM. Sharland P. Heath
  • Published in Archives of Disease in… 21 April 2005
  • Medicine
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
To reduce global neonatal mortality, strategies of proven efficacy, such as hand washing, barrier nursing, restriction of antibiotic use, and rationalisation of admission to neonatal units, need to be implemented.
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