A three year descriptive study of early onset neonatal sepsis in a refugee population on the Thailand Myanmar border
Open Access
- 21 December 2013
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 13 (1), 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-601
Abstract
Each year an estimated four million neonates die, the majority in the first week of life. One of the major causes of death is sepsis. Proving the incidence and aetiology of neonatal sepsis is difficult, particularly in resource poor settings where the majority of the deaths occur. We conducted a three year observational study of clinically diagnosed early onset (Escherichia coli, E. coli was detected in the cerebrospinal fluid specimen in this infant, and in an additional two infants, by PCR. Therefore, the incidence of bacteriologically proven EONS was 0.7 per 1000 live births (95% CI 0.1 – 2.1). No infants enrolled in study died as a direct result of EONS. A low incidence of bacteriologically proven EONS was seen in this study, despite a high incidence of clinically diagnosed EONS. The use of molecular diagnostics and nonspecific markers of infection need to be studied in resource poor settings to improve the diagnosis of EONS and rationalise antibiotic use.Keywords
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