National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Neonatal Sepsis is one of the leading causes of neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Frequent monitoring on causative pathogens and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern is mandatory for the better treatment. The present study was undertaken to identify the common bacterial pathogens causing Neonatal sepsis and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Blood cultures were performed for 400 clinically suspected cases of neonatal septicaemia and 36% (144 cases) were culture positive. Of these, 61% cases were early onset septicemia (EOS) and 39% were late onset septicemia (LOS). Among culture positive cases, the bacteriological profile was found highest for Klebsiella pneumoniae (59.7%) followed by Acinetobater species (16.6%) among Gram negative isolates and CoNS(4%) was the predominant Gram-positive pathogen. Imipenem showed highest 100% sensitivity and Cefotaxime least (30 %) sensitivity to Gram-negative isolates. This concludes that broad range of bacteria are associated with neonatal sepsis and revealed variation in antimicrobial susceptibility pattern among bacterial isolates.
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