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Neonatal sepsis. Neonatal sepsis is a type of neonatal infection and specifically refers to the presence in a newborn baby of a bacterial blood stream infection (BSI) (such as meningitis, pneumonia, pyelonephritis, or gastroenteritis) in the setting of fever. Older textbooks may refer to neonatal sepsis as "sepsis neonatorum".
Neonatal sepsis is a clinical syndrome characterized by non-specific signs and symptoms caused by invasion by pathogens 1, 2. Sepsis is deemed culture-proven if confirmed by microbial growth on blood cultures or other sterile bodily fluids.
- 10.1038/s41390-021-01696-z
- 2022/01
Nov 2, 2021 · Neonatal sepsis is a clinical syndrome characterized by nonspecific signs and symptoms caused by invasion by pathogens. 1, 2 Sepsis is deemed culture-proven if confirmed by microbial growth on...
- Istemi Han Celik, Morcos Hanna, Fuat Emre Canpolat, Fuat Emre Canpolat, Mohan Pammi
- 2021
Sep 29, 2022 · Neonatal sepsis refers to an infection involving the bloodstream in infants under 28 days old. It continues to remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among infants, especially in middle and lower-income countries.
- Meenakshi Singh, Mahdi Alsaleem, Cory P. Gray
- 2022/09/29
Sep 19, 2023 · Neonatal sepsis (NS) is a dysregulated host response to a systemic viral, bacterial, or fungal infection in the first 28 days of life that is potentially fatal and could turn life-threatening in both term and preterm newborns [1].
- 10.7759/cureus.45530
- 2023/09
- Cureus. 2023 Sep; 15(9): e45530.
To provide a review of neonatal sepsis by identifying its associated risk factors and most common causative pathogens, reviewing features of the term and preterm neonatal immune systems that increase vulnerability to infection, describing previous and the most current management recommendations, and discussing relevant implications for the neona...
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Neonatal sepsis is a clinical syndrome characterized by nonspeci c fi signs and symptoms caused by invasion by pathogens.1,2Sepsis is deemed culture-proven if con rmed by microbial growth on fi...
