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lifeskim:mentions | |
pubmed:issue |
1
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pubmed:dateCreated |
1986-3-10
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pubmed:abstractText |
All cases of neonatal bacteremia occurring at Neonatal Department of Pediatric Clinic, Catholic University of Rome, from January 1976 to December 1983 were examined retrospectively. Twenty-seven (30%) newborn infants with positive blood cultures for coagulase-negative staphylococcus were identified. Seven (25.9%) of the 27 infants were born at term, 4 AGA and 3 SGA; mean birth weight was 2,804 gm (range 2,280-3,670). All of these neonates had clinical evidence and laboratory signs of sepsis, and one had the cerebrospinal-fluid culture positive for coagulase-negative staphylococcus. In the remaining 20 infants (74.1%) the mean birth weight was 1,445 gm (range 810 - 2,400) and mean gestational age was 32 weeks (range 27 - 36). In 15 of the 20 preterm infants clinical signs of septicemia were associated with positive blood culture, and sixty percent of these had received an umbilical artery catheter. An half of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from our neonatal sepsis were DNAse-positive and/or phosphatase-positive and/or mannitol-positive. Two full-term infants, one with Down syndrome and one with cardiac malformation, died at 9 days and at 2 weeks of age, respectively. Three of 15 preterm infants with coagulas-negative staphylococcal septicemia died; deaths were among infants of very low birth weights and immature gestations who had severe respiratory syndrome. These data show that coagulase-negative staphylococcus can be important cause of septicemia in patients with compromised host defenses as newborn infants, and especially in the premature babies receiving invasive procedures.
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pubmed:language |
ita
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pubmed:journal | |
pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:issn |
0391-5387
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pubmed:author | |
pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:volume |
7
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
69-72
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2006-11-15
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pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:4088916-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:4088916-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:4088916-Infant, Newborn,
pubmed-meshheading:4088916-Infant, Premature, Diseases,
pubmed-meshheading:4088916-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:4088916-Sepsis,
pubmed-meshheading:4088916-Staphylococcal Infections,
pubmed-meshheading:4088916-Staphylococcus
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pubmed:articleTitle |
[Neonatal sepsis caused by coagulase-negative staphylococci].
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
English Abstract
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