RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Neonatal Infection and White Blood Cell Count
JF Pediatrics
JO Pediatrics
FD American Academy of Pediatrics
SP 1196
OP 1197
VO 65
IS 6
A1 Töllner, U.
A1 Pohlandt, F.
A1 Kleinhauer, E.
YR 1980
UL http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/65/6/1196.abstract
AB There are some new interesting aspects in the paper of Squire, Favara, and Todd.1 The authors liked to mitigate the enthusiasm for the prospective use of WBC parameters in the diagnosis of infection of the newborn infant. Twenty percent infected newborns and even 13% of fatal cases in their series had totally normal hematologic studies. These data are inconsistent with some previously published results.2,3 Kuchler et al2 found in all but one case of their series (n = 29) of neonatal septicemia an abnormal high relative count of band cells.