Mohammed Ali Abdelhafiz <br/><br/>
Value of highly sensitive C - reactive protein in diagnosis of early onset neonatal sepsis /  
 قيمة الحساسية العالية من البروتين سى التفاعلى فى تشخيص البداية المبكرة للتسمم الدموى فى الأطفال حديثى الولادة 
Mohammed Ali Abdelhafiz ; Supervised Amany Ezzat Elwan , Nouran Fahmy Hussien , Dina Farouk Elgayar 
 - Cairo :   Mohammed Ali Abdelhafiz ,   2011 
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<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics 
<br/><br/> Neonatal sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal period inspite of extensive use of antimicrobial therapy . Early diagnosis of the newborn with early onset neonatal sepsis ( EOS ) is is difficult because Initial signs of EOS are slight and nonspecific and laboratory tests including the " gold standard " blood culture are not always reliable 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Gold standard  Highly sensitive C - reactive protein  Neonatal sepsis