Spectrum of Neonatal Sepsis in NICU
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue 4
Abstract
Neonatal sepsis is one of the commonest conditions encountered in neonatal nursery of any institution. Dynamicity of changing bacterial flora and frequent emergence of resistant strain is main problem. It requires appropriate and accurate clinical & laboratory diagnosis. Present study was aimed to find out spectrum of neonatal sepsis causing microorganism in our set up and comparing same from our previous study done in 2007-08. During study period 106 cases of diagnosed newborns were included. Out of this 43 newborn were culture positive. Current study shows predominance of gram positive staphylococcus (8.5%) followed byklebsiella, whereas previous study had shown predominance of gram negative klebsiella (33.3%).
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Amar Verma, Dr. Binita Nancy Khalkho, Dr. Anita Verma, Dr. Manika Verma, Dr. Ravikant Narayan
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