Study of prevalence of neonatal Septicaemia and detection of antibiotic resistance in Besat Hospital in Sanandaj in 1383
K Rashidi , N Bahmani 1 , N Ghotbi , S Shahsavari
1- , nasrbah@yahoo.com
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ABSTRACT
Background and Aim:
which occurrs as a result of bacterial infection. The major criterion for its diagnosis is
based on body fluid cultures specially blood culture. The aim of this study is to
determine the prevalence of septicemia and also detection of isolated bacterial
sensitivity to selected antibiotics in neonatal ward of Besat Hospital.
Septicemia is one of the most important neonatal diseases Materials and Methods:
hospitalized neonates. A questionnaire including clinical manifestations of septicemia
such as fever, hyporeflexia, hypothermia, cyanosis, abdominal distention, loss of
appetite and jaundice was filled out for every neonate clinically suspected of having
septicemia. At last the collected data were analyzed by means of SPSS software and
descriptive statistics.
This study is descriptive. Blood cultures were ordered for all Results:
suspected of having septicemia but %30 of them had positive blood cultures. The
most common species isolated was coagulase negative staphylococci. As to sign and
symptoms hyporeflexia, juandice, and anorexia were detected most frequently.
Sensitivity of gram negative bacteria to ciprofloxacin was %100 & to cefotaxime
%66.7. Sensitivity of gram positive bacteria to cephalotin was %43, while gram
negative bacteria had highest resistance rate to ampicilin & cephalotine in %100 and
gram positive bacteria to oxacilin in %68.6 & cotrimoxasol in %62.9 of the cases. In
this study prevalence of septicemia in those having positive blood cultures was 30%
with a mortality rate of 4.9%.
This study included 700 specimen of blood cultures, %17.6 of the cases were Conclusion:
diagnosis of septicemia and blood cultures should be considered necessary in
suspected cases. Considering high resistance rate of isolated bacteria to ampicilin &
cephalotin, culture and antibiogram can be of great value to select suitable antibiotic
This research shows that clinical manifestation is not enough for the . Ciprofloxacin can be regarded as the drug of choice for gram negative bacteria. To
reduce prevalence and mortality rates of septicemia, proper planning to confront
microorganisms & nosocomial infections is necessary. Also appropriate and timely
prescription of antibiotics by pediatricians can prevent bacterial resistance to
antibiotics.
Keywords: Neonatal septicemia , Antibiotic resistant
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General Received: 2009/11/9 | Published: 2006/03/15
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