Seyed Saeed Nabavi
Tehran Azad University, Iran
Title: Evaluation of gastric secretion culture results and comparsion with blood culture results in early onset nenatal sepsis
Biography
Biography: Seyed Saeed Nabavi
Abstract
Background:
The aim of this study was to determine the relevance between the results of stomach bacteriological culture and blood culture in neonatal sepsis.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 64 infants suspected sepsis have been studied. After clinical manifestations, blood samples, and stomach cultures were collected.
Results: In this study, which was conducted on 64 children, 7.8% of infants had positive blood cultures. and in stomch culture 46.9% gram positive cocci has been reported. Stomach culture results in neonates show that the most common bacteria was staphylococcus epidermidis, and Streptococcus.
Conclusion: According to the findings of this study positive gastric culture can be related to the onset of neonatal sepsis.