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The impact of environmental and genetic factors on neonatal late-onset sepsis.
The Journal of pediatrics - 1 Feb 2011
Bizzarro Matthew J, Jiang Yuan, Hussain Naveed, Gruen Jeffrey R, Bhandari Vineet, Zhang Heping
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To assess the genetic contribution to late-onset sepsis in twins in the newborn intensive care unit. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective cohort analysis of twins born from 1994 to 2009 was performed on data collected from the newborn intensive care units at Yale University and the University of Connecticut. Sepsis concordance rates were compared between monozygotic and dizygotic twins. Mixed-effects logistic...
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