Underweight full-term Indian neonates show differences in umbilical cord blood leukocyte phenotype: a cross-sectional study.

While infections are a major cause of neonatal mortality in India even in full-term neonates, this is an especial problem in the large proportion (~20%) of neonates born underweight (or small-for-gestational-age; SGA). One potential contributory factor for this susceptibility is the possibility that...

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Main Authors: Deepak K Rathore, Deepa Nair, Saimah Raza, Savita Saini, Reeta Singh, Amit Kumar, Reva Tripathi, Siddarth Ramji, Aruna Batra, Kailash C Aggarwal, Harish K Chellani, Sugandha Arya, Neerja Bhatla, Vinod K Paul, Ramesh Aggarwal, Nidhi Agarwal, Umesh Mehta, Shailaja Sopory, Uma Chandra Mouli Natchu, Shinjini Bhatnagar, Vineeta Bal, Satyajit Rath, Nitya Wadhwa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4405369?pdf=render