Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology (Volume 37-2) (The Clinics: Internal Medicine, Volume 37-2)

Book info: Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology (Volume 37-2) (The Clinics: Internal Medicine, Volume 37-2) (Hardcover, 534 pages) – Saunders, 2010. Language: English.

Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis is covered in this issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest edited by Drs. Karen Fairchild and Richard Polin. Authorities in the field have come together to pen articles on Innate host defenses and risk for EONS, Group B streptococcus, Diagnosis and management of clinical chorioamnionitis, Molecular diagnostics of sepsis, Use of proteomics in the diagnosis of chorioamnionitis and neonatal sepsis, Adjunct laboratory tests in the diagnosis of EONS, Ureaplasma: role in diseases of prematurity, Meningitis in neonates, Adjunct immunologic therapies in neonatal sepsis, Pathophysiology and treatment of septic shock in neonates, and International perspective on EONS.

Editorial Reviews About the Author Richard Polin is William T. Speck Professor and Vice-Chair of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York-Presbyterian, New York.