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Volume 8 Issue 10 (October, 2020)

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Assessment of Bacterial Neonatal Meningitis- A clinical study
Pramod Pratap Singh Chauhan

Background: Neonatal infection is one of the major causes of neonatal deaths in India. The present study was conducted to assess bacterial causes of neonatal meningitis. Materials & Methods: 64 neonates with neonatal meningitis were recorded. CSF analysis, blood, and CSF cultures were evaluated. All patients with meningitis were assessed by brain sonography. Results: Early onset meningitis was seen in 40 and late onset meningitis in 24 cases. The difference was significant (P< 0.05). Staphylococcus epidermidis was seen in 17 and 10 in EOM and LOM respectively, streptococcus spp in 6 and 6 in EOM and LOM respectively, Serratia spp in 4 and 3 in EOM and LOM respectively, Klebsiella spp in 3 and 1 in EOM and LOM respectively, gram negative rods in 4 and 1 in EOM and LOM respectively, Pseudomonas auroginosa in 3 and 2 in EOM and LOM respectively and E. coli in 2 and 1 EOM and LOM respectively. The difference was significant (P< 0.05). Conclusion: Most common bacterial pathogen associated with neonatal meningitis was staphylococcus epidermidis. Key words: CSF, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Neonatal meningitis.

 
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