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Neonatal septicaemia is major cause of mortality and morbidity among neonates around the world. The spectrum of organisms causing neonatal septicaemia changes over time and varies from region to region. Diagnosing neonatal septicaemia is a challenge since being exposed to known risk factors for septicaemia is not a necessity, clinical signs are often vague and laboratory parameters are nonspecific. An ideal diagnostic test for neonatal septica...

Immature host defence mechanisms and invasive life support systems make the neonate particularly susceptible to overwhelming infections. Healthcare-associated bloodstream infection is a serious problem in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Changing pattern of organisms and frequent emergence of resistant bacteria causes difficulty in treatment of these infections. These organisms increase morbidity, mortality and the overall cost of health c...

Neonates have quantitative as well as qualitative deficiency in their humoral immunity. Because of low level of antibody and complement in neonates there is defective generation of chemotactic factors and abnormalities of opsonisation which makes them prone to various bacterial infections. Quantitative estimation of serum immunoglobulins IgG, IgM, IgA and serum complement component C3 in cases of clinically diagnosed neonatal septicaemia cases...