Bacteriological Profile and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Neonatal Sepsis Cases in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Hospital in Türkiye.

Autor:	Dorum BA; Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Bursa City Hospital, Bursa 16110, Türkiye., Elmas Bozdemir Ş; Division of Pediatric Infection, Department of Pediatrics, Bursa City Hospital, Bursa 16110, Türkiye., Kral BZ; Department of Pediatrics, Bursa City Hospital, Bursa 16110, Türkiye., Erdoğan A; Department of Pediatrics, Bursa City Hospital, Bursa 16110, Türkiye., Çakır SÇ; Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Bursa Uludag University Faculty of Medicine, Bursa 16110, Türkiye.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Children (Basel, Switzerland) [Children (Basel)] 2024 Sep 30; Vol. 11 (10). Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 30.
DOI:	10.3390/children11101208
Abstrakt:	Objective: We aimed to determine the demographic data, mortality, and morbidity of early- and late-neonatal sepsis cases, the etiologic agents in these cases, and the antibiotic susceptibility of these agents. Methods: This study was conducted retrospectively in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The demographic, clinical, and laboratory data of newborns diagnosed with culture-proven sepsis within 24 months were evaluated. Results: Two hundred and eleven culture data points belonging to 197 infants were evaluated. Forty percent of the infants had a history of premature birth. The most common clinical findings were respiratory distress and feeding intolerance. Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) were detected most frequently as early- and late-sepsis agents. The most common Gram-negative bacteria detected as late-sepsis agents were Klebsiella spp. and Escherichia coli ( E. coli ). The overall mortality rate was 10%. Conclusions: Neonatal sepsis continues to have high mortality rates in tertiary NICUs. CoNS was the most common agent, highlighting the importance of developing and maintaining personnel training and handwashing practices. It will be important to consider the resistance rates of Klebsiella spp., the most common Gram-negative agent in late-onset sepsis (LOS) cases, to commonly used antibiotics in empirical treatments.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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