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%.