[Clinical differentiation between idiopathic respiratory distress, neonatal septicemia caused by group B streptococci and septicemia caused by other pathogens (author's transl)].
Since bacterial infection in newborns must be treated as specifically and as early as possible, it is important to confirm a diagnosis of suspected infection based on clinical symptoms and to take possible pathogens into consideration when choosing therapy. RDS and septicemia with Group B streptococci can present very similar clinical symptoms, but leucopenia on the first day of life is most probably an indication of septicemia with Group B streptococci. Septicemia caused by other pathogens, however, usually has a much later onset. In the days following birth a raised cardiothoracic index indicates RDS. Other differential criteria are being investigated.
D002176:Candida albicans / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007711:Klebsiella pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012127:Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000382:microbiology*; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013292:Streptococcus agalactiae / Q000302:isolation & purification
Die klinische Unterscheidung zwischen idiopathischem Atemnotsyndrom, Neugeborenensepsis durch Streptokokken der Gruppe B und Sepsis durch andere Erreger.