Serum concentrations of C‐reactive protein in healthy term‐born Norwegian infants 48–72 hours after birth

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AIM: To determine serum C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations in healthy term-born infants shortly after birth. METHODS: We sampled blood from 182 infants along with the routine neonatal screening programme at 48-72 hours of age from consecutively recruited healthy infants without signs of infection and a gestational age (GA) of at least 37 weeks. The blood was stored at minus 20°C until analysis in one assay...

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