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A detailed clinical study of 51 consecutive cases of neonatal klebsiella septicemia was carried out prospectively over a 20 months period. The incidence was 6.27 per 1000 live births. Majority (85.5%) were either preterms or small for date. Almost fifty percent babies had associated perinatal risk factors. Mean age of onset was 5.7±2.2 days. General symptoms were the earliest to occur at mean age of 5.7 days followed by respiratory, alimetary, hematological and neurological symptoms at 6.2, 6.3, 6.6 and 7.9 days respectively. About half of the neonates had associated complications; commoner being meningitis (20%), bleeding manifestations and sclerema (17.6% each) and pneumonia (15.7%). Cefatoxime was found to be the drug of choice (86% sensitivity). Nine babies (17.6%) died during the study period at a mean age of 9.1±3.2 days. Mean duration of hospital stay in rest of neonates was 27.9±12.1 days. Neurological symptoms were commoner in late onset disease. Bleeding manifestations, sclerema and granulocytopenia were seen exclusively in preterms. Presence of respiratory symptoms, bleeding, sclerema, shock and granulocytopenia were identified as poor prognostic factors in neonatal klebsiella septicemia.
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Gupta, P., Murali, M.V., Faridi, M.M.A. et al. Clinical profile of Klebsiella septicemia in neonates. Indian J Pediatr 60, 565–572 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02751435
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