Abstract
Neonatal Sepsis and its Associated Risk Factors in Albatool Teaching hospital / Diyala / Iraq
Highlights
Neonatal sepsis (NS) is a syndrome of an the blood[1].Neonatal sepsis(NS) may cause infant 28 days of life or younger, around 3.1 million deaths each year [2,3]
According to the time and manner of infection, two types of NS can be distinguished: early onset sepsis, occurred during the first seven days of life or during the first 72 hours of life in very low birth weight infants [6] and Late-onset sepsis occurring after the first week of life [7,8].Group B streptococcus and E. coli together account for around 70% of conditions of early onset neonatal sepsis [9], while 70% of first incidentof late-onset infections were caused by gram-positive organisms, with coagulase-negative staphylococci accounting for about 48% of the infections, in addition to Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella[10-15]
Study Design,setting and sample size: A case control study was carried out in the Department of Pediatrics in Al-Batool Teaching Hospital, Diyala Province, Iraq for the period from 1st September 2017 to 30th April 2018. It included 200 neonates (≤ 28 days) who were admitted to Al-Batool Teaching Hospital, 100 of them were presented to the hospital due to NS and the other 100 included neonates presented without neonatal sepsis
Summary
Neonatal sepsis (NS) is a syndrome of an the blood[1].Neonatal sepsis(NS) may cause infant 28 days of life or younger, around 3.1 million deaths each year [2,3]. According to the time and manner of infection, two types of NS can be distinguished: early onset sepsis, occurred during the first seven days of life or during the first 72 hours of life in very low birth weight infants [6] and Late-onset sepsis occurring after the first week of life [7,8].Group B streptococcus and E. coli together account for around 70% of conditions of early onset neonatal sepsis [9], while 70% of first incidentof late-onset infections were caused by gram-positive organisms, with coagulase-negative staphylococci accounting for about 48% of the infections, in addition to Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella[10-15] Both maternal and neonatal factors had subsidized to the risk of neonatal sepsis, as maternal UTI, residence of delivery, premature rupture membrane, intrapartum fever, low APGAR score at 5th minute and not crying soon at birth.
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