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TROPICAL DOCTOR
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 126-128Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1258/td.2006.006037
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A three-year survey of neonatal septicaemia (363 bacteriologically proven cases) in the University of CalabarTeaching Hospital, Calabar, has demonstrated that the dominant blood isolate was Staphylococcus aureus (53%) followed by unclassified Coliforms (20%), an unexpected Chromobacterium violaceum (5%).The incidence of neonatal septicaemia was 54.9 per 1000 live births for inborn infants. The predominant organisms were largely susceptible to gentamicin, ceftriazone and cefuroxime with a mortality rate of 19% with most (60.9%) of the fatalities being due to Gram-negative organisms.
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