Resistance of bacterial isolates from neonates with suspected sepsis to recommended first-line antibiotics in Fiji.
A retrospective descriptive study at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Fiji’s largest public hospital
Abstract
We performed a retrospective descriptive study involving a review of the Infection Control Unit register and the patient folders in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Fiji’s largest public hospital.
Our study population was all neonates admitted to the Colonial War Memorial Hospital’s NICU during a 1-year period (January 1 to December 31, 2012) who had clinically suspected sepsis and a positive bacteriologic culture result from a sample obtained screening for sepsis. Ethics approval was provided by the Ethics Advisory Group of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and the Fiji National Health Research Committee.
This research was supported by the UK Department for International Development’s Operational Research Capacity Building Programme led by the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union)
Citation
Kumar, Shaneel; Graham, Stephen M.; Varman, Sumantla; Kado, Joseph; Viney, Kerri (2015) Resistance of bacterial isolates from neonates with suspected sepsis to recommended first-line antibiotics in Fiji. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal: August 2015 - Volume 34 - Issue 8 - p 915–916 doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000764