Etude Epidemiologique Sur Les Septicemies Et Meningites Neonatales En Belgique
| Autor: | D. Walckiers, G. Jeanfils, F. Van Loock, Jozef Vandepitte |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pregnancy Pediatrics business.industry medicine.drug_class Public health Antibiotics General Medicine medicine.disease medicine.disease_cause 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Aminopenicillin 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Epidemiology medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Risk factor business Staphylococcus Meningitis |
| Zdroj: | Acta Clinica Belgica. 50:326-334 |
| ISSN: | 2295-3337 1784-3286 |
| Popis: | SummaryEpidemiological data were collected for 219 cases of neonatal septicaemia and/or meningitis. In two thirds of the cases the diagnosis was made in newborns aged 4 days or less. Risk factors related to the delivery, to the health status of the infant at birth and to pregnancy were mentioned respectively in 74, 63 and 36 % of the cases. Half of the newborns given antibiotics in prophylaxis received an association of aminopenicillin and aminoside. In more than four fifths of the cases the bacterium was only isolated from blood. In newborns aged 4 days or less at the lime of diagnosis, S. agalactiae was the most frequently isolated agent (50%). In newborns aged 5 days or more at the time of diagnosis, E. coli was the most frequent isolate (23%), followed by S. agalactiae and coagulasc-negative Staphylococcus (20%). The lethality was 18%. About three fourths of the children dying from the infection, died during the first week of life. For the children who did not die during their stay in hospital, the du... |
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