Bacterial contamination of mobile phones of health care workers.

The microbiological pattern of early onset neonatal sepsis (EONS) is different from late onset sepsis and is associated with several peri-natal risk factors. In view of the high mortality associated with this condition septic screening is carried out and empirical treatment with antibiotics started in the presence of two or more of these risk factors, resulting in a large number of babies receiving unnecessary antibiotics.[1] In order to identify these risk factors and the infective organisms so that empirical treatment with antibiotics could be more focused in our hospital, (a private sector teaching hospital providing level III care) a small case control study was carried out.