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Original articles

• Diagnostic tests for bacterial infection from birth to 90 days—a systematic review (1 March, 1998)

  P W Fowlie, B Schmidt
• Increased survival and deteriorating developmental outcome in 23 to 25 week old gestation infants, 1990–4 compared with 1984–9 (1 March, 1998)

  H C A Emsley, S P Wardle, D G Sims, M L Chiswick, S W D’Souza
• Range of echocardiographic findings in term neonates with high oxygen requirements (1 March, 1998)

  Nick Evans, Martin Kluckow, Andrew Currie
• Outcome of resuscitation following unexpected apparent stillbirth (1 March, 1998)

  D M Casalaz, N Marlow, B D Speidel
• Modulation by magnesium of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in developing human brain

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  H Chahal, S W D’Souza, A J Barson, P Slater
• Factor V Leiden and genetic defects of thrombophilia in childhood porencephaly (1 March, 1998)

  Otfried Debus, Hans Georg Koch, Gerhard Kurlemann, Ronald Sträter, Heinrich Vielhaber, Peter Weber, Ulrike Nowak-Göttl
• Complement and contact activation in term neonates after fetal acidosis (1 March, 1998)

  Josef Sonntag, Mathias H Wagner, Evelyn Strauss, Michael Obladen
• Reduced expression of C5a receptors on neutrophils from cord blood (1 March, 1998)

  Mads Nybo, Ole Sørensen, R Leslie, Palle Wang
• Cardiac effects of short course dexamethasone in preterm infants (1 March, 1998)

  R Skelton, A B Gill, J M Parsons
• Randomised controlled trial of eutectic mixture of local anaesthetics cream for venepuncture in healthy preterm infants (1 March, 1998)

  A B Acharya, P C Bustani, J D Phillips, N A Taub, R M Beattie
• Soluble L-selectin concentration in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid obtained from infants who develop chronic lung disease of prematurity (1 March, 1998)

  S Kotecha, M Silverman, R J Shaw, N Klein
• Volume delivery during high frequency oscillation (1 March, 1998)

  G Dimitriou, A Greenough, V Kavvadia, B Laubscher, A D Milner
• Long term gastric pH monitoring for determining optimal dose of ranitidine for critically ill preterm and term neonates (1 March, 1998)

  Anna-Leena Kuusela