This paper reports the creation of India's national neonatal-perinatal database. The database has a continuous reporting format, uniform in its definitions, and is checked and compiled at a nodal center, which is a necessity for planning and monitoring health care. Data were compiled from intramural births of 16 centers, which included neonatal morbidity and mortality data for the year 1995. ...

Neonatal septicemia is a clinical syndrome of systemic illness accompanied by bacteremia occurring in the first 28 days of life. Microorganism causing neonatal septicemia varies from country to country and region to region and time to time. In many situations, conventional antibiotics are not sensitive to causative micro-organism. Our aim of the study is to identify causative organism and sensi...

Septicemia in the young infant, particularly the newborn, has a high mortality despite the use of potent anti-microbial agents. Case reports and studies reporting the successful use of Exchange Transfusion (E. T.) in Septicemia of the newborn prompted us to apply this measure in this patient. 1.2 However we have not found any reports on the use E.T. beyond the neonatal period, in the critically...

Maternal and neonatal infections with Salmonella typhi have been well documented. There are only two previous case reports of intrauterine infection with non-typhoidal species. This paper presents a third case of maternal septicemia followed by neonatal sepsis with Salmonella heidelberg.

beckwith and wiedemann for the first time described a syndrome characterised by macroglossia,macrosomia and omphalocele.nowadays inaddition to the above symptoms,visceromegaly,mild microcephaly,facial nevus flammeus,earlobe cerase,persistent neonatal hypoglycemia,and polycythemia are also considered various manifestations of Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. This study report a female neonate with ...

Group D streptococci are known to cause newborn septicemia and meningitis, but the Streptococcus bovis group strains rarely cause serious neonatal infections in Korea. Central nervous system (CNS) complications of neonatal S. bovis group infection have rarely been reported. In adults, S. bovis group strains cause bacteremia and endocarditis, and are associated with gastrointestinal malignancy. ...

AIM This study has been conducted for the purpose of determining serum hepcidin, total antioxidant status (TAS), total oxidant status (TOS), and Fe levels in calves with suspected neonatal septicemia before and after treatment and the clinical significance of hepcidin in calves with suspected neonatal septicemia. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study material consisted of 15 calves of different age...

background: hospital infections are a main cause of infant death among hospitalized infants in the neonatal wards. this research was conducted aiming to assess the medical staff's knowledge of hospital infections. methods: this is a cross-sectional study, conducted in all neonatal in isfahan hospitals wards. 65 nurses answerd to a questionnaire. results: results showed that 66.7% considered sep...