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A cross sectional Study to find out incidence of fungal sepsis in very low birth weight neonates from a tertiary care hospital | |
Dr. Rashika Mandloi, Dr. Manish Purohit | |
The importance of fungal sepsis as a cause of increased morbidity and mortality among newborn has been stated by many research across the globe. Incidence of sepsis among neonate is around 0.1% compared to incidence among very low birth weight neonate of approximately 20%.This study was aimed to find out incidence of fungal blood stream infection (BSI) among very low birth weight neonate. We have found fungal BSI incidence of 22.9% (n=131).We found growth of only Candida in our study .Out of total Candida grown 6.6% were pure and16% were grown with Bacterial growth . |
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