Changing Trends in Bacterial Spectrum of Neonatal Sepsis at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital - 2011 to 2015

Abstract

BACKGROUNDThe organisms causing neonatal sepsis and their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns are highly diverse and vary geographically, temporally and locally attributed to changing pattern of antimicrobial use. Therefore, a continuous surveillance of sepsis is of utmost importance to ensure early diagnosis and appropriate therapy. This requires an understanding of changing trends in prevalent organisms and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern. The aim of the present study was to determine the bacteriological profile and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of organisms causing neonatal sepsis over a period of five years.