Sepsis leads to life-threatening organ failure due to dysregulated host responses to infection and presents uniquely across age groups. Neonatal sepsis, affecting infants in their first 28 days, ...

Sepsis is an important cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Diagnosis and treatment of neonatal sepsis relies on clinical judgment and interpretation of nonspecific laboratory tests.

"Until meningitis is ruled out through lumbar puncture, septic very-low-birth-weight infants at high risk of mortality should receive empiric antimicrobials with high delivery through the blood-brain ...

Background: Early-onset sepsis is a common diagnosis in neonatal intensive care units. Because of the low incidence, overtreatment is also common. Objective: To measure the sensitivity and negative ...

First-line treatment of neonatal sepsis in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with ampicillin-gentamicin — as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) — needs to be reassessed, a ...

The author is Neonatologist & Paediatrician, Motherhood Hospital, Kharghar. Anyone may catch an infection, and practically any illness can result in sepsis, the body’s overreaction to an infection.

Decrease in spontaneous activity, reluctance to feed, rapid breathing and trouble staying awake are all warning signs of neonatal sepsis that should not be ignored. Neonatal sepsis is a blood ...

BETA-hemolytic streptococci of Lancefield Group B have been implicated in human disease almost from the time when the precipitin-grouping technic first came into use. 1–3 Since that time additional ...

Neonates with suspected early-onset sepsis are often treated aggressively with antibiotics before infection is confirmed. NICE has recommended a gentler approach Up to one in 10 neonates are ...

More than a third of newborns diagnosed with sepsis— a life-threatening immune system response to an infection— could die, a study published recently in The Lancet Global Health journal said. The ...

A third of newborns in special care units at Indian district hospitals suffer from neonatal sepsis, a potentially fatal bloodstream infection, a research paper published in The Lancet Global Health ...