Clinical and microbiological characteristics of hospital infections in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Neonates hospitalized in intensive care units, are exposed to a higher risk of infectious complications. The research involved 52 neonates hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Chair and Clinic of Obstetrics and Perinatology over a span of one year. The incidence of hospital infections as well as etiological factors were analyzed. Clinically manifested hospital infections were diagnosed in 38.5% of babies with very low or extremely low birth weight, in boys twice as often as in girls. Generalised invasive infections prevailed; in most cases they were caused by Gram-negative rods, mainly Klebsiella spp.
Jurczak
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Chair of Microbiology and Clinical Immunology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland. jurczaka@op.pl
Kordek
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Grochans
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Giedrys-Kalemba
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D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011044:Poland