UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between meningitis and neonatal period of complications such as massive intraventricular hemorrhage and into brain tissue, hypoxic-ischemic white matter injury retinopathy of prematurity 3-5 degrees and deafness in infants born prematurely from single and multiple pregnancies. MATERIAL The retrospective study covered 460 prete...

The prevalence of the ibe10 gene, of the pap, afa, and sfa adhesin-encoding operons, and of a 14.9-kb rrn-containing HindIII fragment was studied for 67 Escherichia coli neonatal meningitis strains, 58 E. coli K1 commensal strains, and 47 E. coli blood isolates from neonates without meningitis. ibe10, sfa, and the 14.9-kb HindIII fragment were observed significantly more often in the meningitis...

Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the major cause of human neonatal infections. A single clone, designated CC17-GBS, accounts for more than 80% meningitis cases, most severe form infection. However, events allowing blood-borne GBS to penetrate brain remain largely elusive. In this study, we identified host transmembrane receptors ?5?1 and ?v?3 integrins as ligands Srr2, a CC17-GBS–specific adhesin...

Campylobacter fetus is a rare etiological agent of neonatal meningitis. However, it is a clinically significant bacterium because many cases of neonatal meningitis caused by C. fetus result in death or severe sequelaen. Recently, two new carbapenem antibiotics, meropenem (MEPM) and panipenem (PAPM), which possess relatively good ability to penetrate into the cerebrospinal fluid and a lower risk...

BACKGROUND Neonatal bloodstream infection (BSI) is the most important cause of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Although most neonatal BSIs are primary bacteremia, some are associated with a focus of infection. This distinction is not well characterized. METHODS All patients with neonatal late-onset sepsis (LOS) between January 2006 and December 2013 were en...

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