OBJECTIVE To study the incidence and outcome of systemic infections with methicillin sensitive (MSSA) and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in Australasian neonatal nurseries. METHODS Prospective longitudinal study of systemic infections (clinical sepsis plus positive cultures of blood and/or cerebrospinal fluid) in 17 Australasian neonatal nurseries. RESULTS The...

Neonatal sepsis is a major cause of death in newborns despite sophisticated neonatal intensive care. This retrospective study reviewed the clinical characteristics of cases of culture-proven sepsis in a neonatal intensive care unit from January 1992 to December 2001. Patients were divided into those with onset of sepsis in the first 7 days of life (early-onset group) and those with onset after ...

BACKGROUND Preterm birth is increasing worldwide, and late preterm births, which comprise more than 70% of all preterm births, account for much of the increase. Early and late onset sepsis results in significant mortality in extremely preterm infants, but little is known about sepsis outcomes in late preterm infants. METHODS This is an observational cohort study of infants <121 days of age (1...

OBJECTIVE Comparison of the incidence and case fatality of early-onset group B streptococcus sepsis and sepsis caused by other pathogens in neonates after change of management of intrauterine infection. METHODS All infants delivered from 1988 through 1997 at a gestational age > or = 24 weeks with a birth weight > or = 500 gram without lethal congenital abnormalities were eligible for inclusio...

Neonatal sepsis (NS) is one of the major causes morbidity and mortality in neonatal age. NS classified according to time symptoms Early-Onset Sepsis (EOS) Late-OnsSepsis (LOS). In new studies, neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) platelet/lymphocyte have been used determining existence severity sepsis. This a sign inflammation, it can be foreseeing septicemia.

Background: Neonatal sepsis is usually diagnosed with pathogen/bacterial isolation from the bloodstream or symptoms of infection seen in 28 days younger. includes various diseases varying mortality rates 11-40% contributing to nearly 3.1 deaths globally new-borns every year. Aim: The present study was conducted assess risk factors associated low-birth-weight babies an Indian setup. Methods: scr...

With the advent of antibiotic resistance, pathogenic bacteria have become a major threat in cases of neonatal sepsis; however, guidelines for treatment have not yet been standardized. In this study, 15 cases of neonatal Streptococcus agalactiae sepsis from our hospital were retrospectively analyzed. Of these, nine cases showed early-onset and six cases showed late-onset sepsis. Pathogens were c...

Globally, an estimated 500,000 newborns die each year from serious neonatal infections, which account for about 15% of all neonatal deaths. “Suspected sepsis” is one of the most common reasons for admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The challenge to the physician has always been trying to differentiate newborns with early onset sepsis from other non-infectious pathology whose ...