background: recto-vaginal colonization of group b streptococcus (gbs) has been known as an important issue in mother and newborn’s health, which is getting frequent in developing countries. screening test have been introduced and utilized in many countries and is recommended by many researchers. however, due to lack of information in prevalence of gbs, especially in iran, there are doubts and c...

 Background: Recto-vaginal colonization of Group B streptococcus (GBS) has been known as an important issue in mother and newborn’s health, which is getting frequent in developing countries. Screening test have been introduced and utilized in many countries and is recommended by many researchers. However, due to lack of information in prevalence of GBS, especially in Iran, there are doubts and ...

Improvements in child survival have contributed much of the gains in life expectancy at birth during the last two decades. At a global level, neonatal mortality has decreased from 36 to 19 deaths per 1000 livebirths between 1990 and 2012. However, the reduction in neonatal mortality between 1990 and 2015 (47%) has lagged behind that of postneonatal under-5 years mortality (58%) globally. The Ev...

OBJECTIVE To test and validate a multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction method for bloodstream infections, as well as to compare the results with conventional blood culture. METHODS A total of 114 consecutive patients with clinical evidence of sepsis were submitted to blood culture and LightCycler™ SeptiFast tests. RESULTS More positive specimens (23; 20.2%) were detected using the L...

Abstract Background This study demonstrates the experience of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) a tertiary referral center in Egypt management prematures with sepsis. retrospective included preterm neonates admitted to NICU clinical and/or laboratory diagnosis Blood culture was done followed by antimicrobial susceptibility testing for positive cases. Neonates sepsis were classified into early...

We compared PCR with blood cultures in the diagnosis of neonatal staphylococcal sepsis. Significant association was observed between PCR-based and culture-based diagnosis of staphylococcal bacteremia. Positive and negative predictive values for PCR were 100% and 98%, respectively. These data indicate that PCR may serve as a useful adjunct for the rapid diagnosis of staphylococcal sepsis.

The data presented in this paper supports the research article "A rapid, highly sensitive and culture-free detection of pathogens from blood by positive enrichment" ( Vutukuru et al., 2016) [1]. We compared a list of sepsis causing pathogens to the ApoH binding data given to us by ApoH technologies. The data highlights the binding of ApoH beads to sepsis causing pathogens.

The aim of this cohort (prospective) analytic study was to determine the microbiological pattern of bacterial infection in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Kasr El Eini Hospital, to investigate microbial colonization of neonates at birth before any interference and to examine whether surface cultures yielded information helpful in management. The study population comprised 70 high risk neona...

Neonatal sepsis is a disease of infants who are less than 1 month of age. These infants are clinically ill, and their blood culture are positive for bacteria. The reported incidence of neonatal sepsis for all infants is 1 to 10 per 1000 live births. The mortality rate is 4.2-26%. The clinical signs are not specific and diagnosis of neonatal sepsis is one of the most difficult tasks in clinical ...