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Level 1 Neonatal Invasive Blood Stream Infection is defined by two criteria: first, identification of a recognized pathogen from a normally sterile site using a validated method; second, if a normally non-pathogenic organism is isolated from blood cultures the following two requirements must be met: a) The cultures must be obtained from two different sites OR taken at two different times; b) One or more of the level 2 criteria must be present.
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