Prolonged antibiotic therapy increased necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants without culture-proven sepsis

Prolonged antibiotic therapy increased necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants without culture-proven sepsis

ObjectivesWe aimed to identify the factors associated with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and to assess the associations of the initial empirical antibiotic therapy (IEAT) duration and antibiotic therapy duration/hospital stay ratio (A/H ratio) before NEC with subsequent NEC in very low birth weigh...

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Main Authors: Keran Zhu, Hui Gao, Liping Yuan, Lili Wang, Fang Deng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Pediatrics
Subjects:
necrotizing enterocolitis
very low birth weight (VLBW)
initial empirical antibiotic therapy
antibiotic use duration
hospital stays
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2022.949830/full

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