Neonatal septicemia isolates and resistance patterns in a tertiary care hospital of North India
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Neonatal septicemia isolates and resistance patterns in a tertiary care hospital of North India.
BACKGROUND Septicemia continues to be a major cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity worldwide. METHODOLOGY To know the rate of neonatal septicemia in our tertiary care centre, a retrospective analysis of 2,247 blood samples was done over a period of four years and three months (July 2003 to October 2007). RESULTS During that period, a total of 296 (13.17%) blood samples were found to be...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1972-2680
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.625