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| Title |
Bacteriological profile of neonatal sepsis and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of isolates admitted at Kanti Children’s Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
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| Published in |
BMC Research Notes, May 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13104-018-3394-6 |
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| Authors |
Nikita Singh Yadav, Saroj Sharma, Dhiraj Kumar Chaudhary, Prabhat Panthi, Pankaj Pokhrel, Anil Shrestha, Pappu Kumar Mandal |
| Abstract |
Neonatal sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality of newborns (< 1 month of age). Septicemia and drug resistance is a predominant issue for neonatal death in Nepal. This study is intended to find bacteriological profile of neonatal sepsis and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of the isolates from neonates at Kanti Children's Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal. Out of 350 suspected cases of neonatal sepsis, 59 (16.9%) cases showed positive blood culture. The prevalent of positive blood culture with different neonatal risk factors (sex, age, birth weight, gestational age, and delivery mode) showed highest positive bacterial growth in male (52.3%); 3 or above 3 days age (71.2%); low birth weight (62.7%); preterm gestational age (31.4%); and caesarean delivery mode (63.3%). Among positive cases, the bacteriological profile was found highest for Staphylococcus aureus (35.6%) followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae (15.3%). The most sensitive and resistive antibiotics among Gram-positive isolates were gentamicin (93%) and ampicillin (78%), respectively. Meropenem and imipenem showed highest 100% effective and cefotaxime was least (28%) sensitive among Gram-negative isolates. This concludes broad ranges of bacteria are associated with neonatal sepsis and revealed variation in antibiotic susceptibility pattern among bacterial isolates. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | 33% |
| Canada | 1 | 17% |
| Australia | 1 | 17% |
| Korea, Democratic People's Republic of | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 1 | 17% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 166 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 30 | 18% |
| Researcher | 15 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 21 | 13% |
| Unknown | 65 | 39% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 42 | 25% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 13 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 12 | 7% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 11 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 13 | 8% |
| Unknown | 69 | 42% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 May 2018.
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#7,432,724
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#1,138
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Outputs of similar age
#120,410
of 331,834 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#22
of 108 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,460,744 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,403 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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