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Thermal care of newborns and particularly low birth weight babies has become a hot topic during the past several years. This particular infant population is vulnerable to bacterial infections and because prodromal clinical signs are very unspecific, early detection of this severe disease state is of paramount importance for the prompt start of treatment [1–5].
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Messaritakis, J., Anagnostakis, D. (1995). Thermal Monitoring in Sick Neonates. In: Okken, A., Koch, J. (eds) Thermoregulation of Sick and Low Birth Weight Neonates. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79934-1_9
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