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Is vitamin D deficiency alone sufficient to increase the incidence of neonatal sepsis?

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Atatürk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey

    Kadir Şerafettin Tekgündüz

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey

    Handan Alp & Mevlüt Kürşat Akkar

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Communicated by Patrick Van Reempts

This paper is a correspondence to http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00431-014-2469-1.

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Tekgündüz, K.Ş., Alp, H. & Akkar, M.K. Is vitamin D deficiency alone sufficient to increase the incidence of neonatal sepsis?. Eur J Pediatr 174, 817–818 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-014-2486-0

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