Bacterial spectrum of neonatal septicemia with their antibiogram with reference to various predisposing factors in a tertiary care hospital in Southern India

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 96-99

  Rajendraprasad, Bheemasamudra Patel Mallikarjunappa ^a   Basavaraj, Kurubanahalli Nandyappa ^a   Antony, Beena ^b  

^a J J M MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b FATHER MULLER MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test; Blood Culture; Changing Bacterial Spectrum; Neonatal Septicemia

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CITROBACTER KOSERI; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GESTATIONAL AGE; INDIA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84882237143     PISSN: 17556783     EISSN: 09746005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1755-6783.115204     Document Type: Article

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