OCHRC.org - Areas Of Interest

Neonatal Infection

In this section of Area of Interest is a compilation of selected abstracts from recently published journal articles. The objective is to provide OCHRC Community Members a customized list of related peer-reviewed articles for easy update. The peer-reviewed articles will be selected considering their relevance to children’s health and nutrition in low and middle income countries.

The star feature of this section will be the Moderator’s comment. The Moderator for this section is a world-class expert in the field of Neonatal Infections. Professor Abdullah Baqui, Professor of International Health in Health Systems Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is based in Maryland, USA. His comments will provide community members with analyses, trends and guidance in terms of priority research areas.

Community members can also comment on the articles, on the Moderator’s comment and can ask related questions. The Moderator’s comment will soon follow.

To post any comment please log on to the OCHRC Online Community.

Perinatal outcomes associated with preterm birth at 33 to 36 weeks' gestation: a population-based cohort study.
Khashu M, Narayanan M, Bhargava S, Osiovich H. Neonatal Service, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Dorset, England. OBJECTIVE: The aim of our population-based study was to...
Read the full abstract>>

A major global public health challenge.
Qazi SA, Stoll BJ. Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. [email protected] PMID: 19106756 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Read the full abstract>>

Antimicrobial resistance among neonatal pathogens in developing countries.
Thaver D, Ali SA, Zaidi AK. Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. INTRODUCTION: Knowledge of antimicrobial resistance and trends in...
Read the full abstract>>

In primary care settings: a review of the evidence and implications for policy?
Bhutta ZA, Zaidi AK, Thaver D, Humayun Q, Ali S, Darmstadt GL. Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan....
Read the full abstract>>

In developing countries: a review of evidence from community-based studies.
Thaver D, Zaidi AK. Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. INTRODUCTION: Infections are a major contributor to newborn deaths in developing...
Read the full abstract>>

Serious neonatal bacterial infections
Darmstadt GL, Batra M, Zaidi AK. Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. [email protected]...
Read the full abstract>>

Research priorities to reduce global mortality from newborn infections by 2015.
Bahl R, Martines J, Ali N, Bhan MK, Carlo W, Chan KY, Darmstadt GL, Hamer DH, Lawn JE, McMillan DD, Mohan P,Paul V, Tsai AC, Victora...
Read the full abstract>>

Role of micro-ESR and I/T ratio in the early diagnosis of neonatal sepsis.
Walliullah SM, Islam MN, Siddika M, Hossain MA, Chowdhury AK. Division of Neonatology, Bangladesh Insitute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. This...
Read the full abstract>>

Neonates in a care center: changes over the last decade.
Sundaram V, Kumar P, Dutta S, Mukhopadhyay K, Ray P, Gautam V, Narang A. Department of Pediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research,...
Read the full abstract>>

Group B Streptococcus colonization in pregnancy: strategies of neonatal sepsis.
Rausch AV, Gross A, Droz S, Bodmer T, Surbek DV. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and University of Bern, Switzerland. Early...
Read the full abstract>>

Safety and efficacy of neonatal vaccination.
Demirjian A, Levy O. Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Newborns have an immature immune system that renders them...
Read the full abstract>>

Impact of enhanced infection control at 2 neonatal intensive care units in the Philippines.
Gill CJ, Mantaring JB, Macleod WB, Mendoza M, Mendoza S, Huskins WC, Goldmann DA, Hamer DH. Center for International Health and Development, Department of...
Read the full abstract>>

A case definition for national and international neonatal bloodstream infection surveillance.
Modi N, Doré CJ, Saraswatula A, Richards M, Bamford KB, Coello R, Holmes A. Division of Medicine, Section of Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London,...
Read the full abstract>>

Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor administered as prophylaxis for reduction of sepsis in extremely preterm, small for gestational age neonates (the PROGRAMS trial): a single-blind, multicentre, randomised controlled trial.
Carr R, Brocklehurst P, Doré CJ, Modi N. Department of Haematology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, King's College, London, UK. BACKGROUND: Systemic sepsis is a major cause...
Read the full abstract>>

Pharmacological differences between once daily and twice daily gentamicin dosage in newborns with suspected sepsis.
Hagen I, Øymar K. Department of Pediatrics, Stavanger University Hospital, P.O. Box 8100, 4068, Stavanger, Norway. [email protected] OBJECTIVE: To evaluate two different regimens for...
Read the full abstract>>

Switch therapy in full-term neonates with presumed or proven bacterial infection.
Manzoni P, Esposito S, Gallo E, Gastaldo L, Farina D, Principi N. Sant' Anna Hospital, Turin, Italy. [email protected] This case-control study of full-term...
Read the full abstract>>

Application of evidence-based teaching in maternal and child health in remote Vietnam.
Hirst JE, Jeffery HE, Morris J, Foster K, Elliott EJ. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia. [email protected]...
Read the full abstract>>

Neonatal mortality, risk factors and causes: a prospective population-based cohort study in urban Pakistan.
Jehan I, Harris H, Salat S, Zeb A, Mobeen N, Pasha O, McClure EM, Moore J, Wright LL, Goldenberg RL. Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan....
Read the full abstract>>

Maternal-infant perinatal transmission of methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus.
Pinter DM, Mandel J, Hulten KG, Minkoff H, Tosi MF. Department of Pediatrics, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Because of the increasing importance of...
Read the full abstract>>

Urinary tract infection in preterm infants: the protective role of breastfeeding.
Levy I, Comarsca J, Davidovits M, Klinger G, Sirota L, Linder N. Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. [email protected] Urinary tract...
Read the full abstract>>

Comparison of serum amyloid A concentrations with those of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin in diagnosis and follow-up of neonatal sepsis in premature infants.
Cetinkaya M, Ozkan H, Köksal N, Celebi S, HacimustafaoÄŸlu M. Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey. [email protected]...
Read the full abstract>>

Are the "good old" antibiotics still appropriate for early-onset neonatal sepsis? A 10 year survey.
Maayan-Metzger A, Barzilai A, Keller N, Kuint J. Department of Neonatology, Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. [email protected]...
Read the full abstract>>

The effect of interrupted 5-day training on Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness.
Kumar D, Aggarwal AK, Kumar R. School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. The conventional 8-day Integrated Management of...
Read the full abstract>>

C-reactive protein: a useful marker for guiding duration of antibiotic therapy in suspected neonatal septicaemia?
Al-Zwaini EJ. Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Al-Kindi Medical College, Baghdad University Baghdad, Iraq. [email protected] The study aimed to determine whether serum...
Read the full abstract>>

Sepsis in the neonate.
Gardner SL. [email protected] In the neonatal intensive care unit, critical care nurses who are not advanced practice nurses cannot make the medical diagnosis of infection/sepsis in the...
Read the full abstract>>

Neonatal infections in Asia.
Tiskumara R, Fakharee SH, Liu CQ, Nuntnarumit P, Lui KM, Hammoud M, Lee JK, Chow CB, Shenoi A, Halliday R,Isaacs D; Asia-Pacific Neonatal...
Read the full abstract>>

Prevention of mortality and morbidity in infancy: systematic review of randomised controlled trials.
Gogia S, Sachdev HS. Department of Paediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, B-16 Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi 110016, India....
Read the full abstract>>

Structured training in the management of emergencies in mothers, babies and children in a poorly resourced health system: logbooks to document skill use.
Zafar S, Hafeez A, Qureshi F, Arshad N, Southall D. Child Advocacy International, 7, Alassad Plaza, F-10 Markaz Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the...
Read the full abstract>>

Epidemiology of neonatal sepsis.
Shin YJ, Ki M, Foxman B. Department of Pediatrics, Eulji University Hospital, Eulji University, Daejeon, Korea. BACKGROUND: Neonatal sepsis is a severe clinical syndrome characterized...
Read the full abstract>>

A systematic review.
Subhi R, Adamson M, Campbell H, Weber M, Smith K, Duke T; Hypoxaemia in Developing Countries Study Group. Collaborators (22) Centre for International Child Health,...
Read the full abstract>>

Neonates admitted to an urban diarrhoeal hospital.
Khan AM, Hossain MS, Khan AI, Chisti MJ, Chowdhury F, Faruque AS, Salam MA. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000,...
Read the full abstract>>

Neonatal sepsis in a neonatal intensive care unit in Indonesia.
Lusyati S, van den Broek P, Sauer PJ. PMID: 19216001 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Read the full abstract>>

Clinical in the neonate: a review.
Pacifici GM. Department of Neurosciences, Section of Pharmacology, University of Pisa Medical School, Pisa, Italy. [email protected] BACKGROUND: Sepsis is common in neonates and is a...
Read the full abstract>>

Association of subclinical vitamin D deficiency in newborns and their mothers.
Karatekin G, Kaya A, SalihoÄŸlu O, Balci H, NuhoÄŸlu A. Department of Neonatology, SiÅŸli Etfal Teaching and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. [email protected]...
Read the full abstract>>

In maternal, umbilical cord, and neonatal sera.
Muller AE, Oostvogel PM, DeJongh J, Mouton JW, Steegers EA, Dörr PJ, Danhof M, Voskuyl RA. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Centre...
Read the full abstract>>

Descriptive epidemiology of mortality and morbidity of from western Jamaica.
McCarthy JE, Evans-Gilbert T. Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766, USA. [email protected] The objectives of our study were...
Read the full abstract>>

Adult in a referral hospital in 1 year after the end of the war.
Huerga H, Vasset B, Prados E. Médecins Sans Frontières-France, Kenya Programme, 8 rue Saint-Sabin, 75544 Paris, France. [email protected] The aim of this study was...
Read the full abstract>>

Impact of maternal human immunodeficiency virus infection on birth outcomes and infant survival in rural Mozambique.
Naniche D, Bardají A, Lahuerta M, Berenguera A, Mandomando I, Sanz S, Aponte JJ, Sigauque B, Alonso PL,Menéndez C. Barcelona Center for...
Read the full abstract>>

The changing characteristics of neonatal sepsis in the neonatal intensive care unit: a never-ending challenge.
Lin YJ. PMID: 19579752 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Read the full abstract>>

Neonatal sepsis: a 6-year analysis in a neonatal care unit.
Wu JH, Chen CY, Tsao PN, Hsieh WS, Chou HC. Department of Pediatrics, Branch for Women and Children, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. BACKGROUND: Neonatal sepsis is the...
Read the full abstract>>

Clinical features of neonatal sepsis caused by resistant Gram-negative bacteria.
Khassawneh M, Khader Y, Abuqtaish N. Department of Pediatrics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, PO Box 126, Aidone, Irbid 21166, Jordan. [email protected] BACKGROUND:...
Read the full abstract>>

Human parechovirus-3 infection: emerging pathogen in neonatal sepsis.
Levorson RE, Jantausch BA, Wiedermann BL, Spiegel HM, Campos JM. Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. [email protected]...
Read the full abstract>>

Risk stratification by level of care for comparing bloodstream infection rates in neonatal intensive care units.
Phillips P, Cortina-Borja M, Gilbert R, Millar M, Kempley S. PMID: 19272672 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Read the full abstract>>

High frequency of multidrug-resistant gram-negative rods in 2 neonatal intensive care units in the Philippines.
Litzow JM, Gill CJ, Mantaring JB, Fox MP, MacLeod WB, Mendoza M, Mendoza S, Scobie R, Huskins CW, Goldman DA, Hamer DH. Department of...
Read the full abstract>>

Salmonella typhimurium outbreak in a neonatal unit in Turkey.
Anil M, Helvaci M, Ozkalay N, Toprak E, Anil AB, Dilek M, Agus N. Department of Pediatrics, Tepecik Educational and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey....
Read the full abstract>>

Can lactoferrin prevent neonatal sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis?
Venkatesh M, Abrams S. Department of Pediatrics, Section of Neonatology, Texas Children's Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. [email protected] Despite the use...
Read the full abstract>>

Improving the outcome of neonatal meningitis.
Galiza EP, Heath PT. Vaccine Institute, London, UK. [email protected] PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Neonatal meningitis is an important cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide, and although...
Read the full abstract>>

Using proteomics in perinatal and neonatal sepsis: hopes and challenges for the future.
Buhimschi CS, Bhandari V, Han YW, Dulay AT, Baumbusch MA, Madri JA, Buhimschi IA. Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and...
Read the full abstract>>

Epidemiology and risk factors.
Klinger G, Levy I, Sirota L, Boyko V, Reichman B, Lerner-Geva L; Israel Neonatal Network. Department of Neonatal Intensive Care, Schneider Children's Medical Center...
Read the full abstract>>

Once daily dose gentamicin in neonates - is our dosing correct?
Serane TV, Zengeya S, Penford G, Cooke J, Khanna G, McGregor-Colman E. Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences, Osudu, Agaram, Pondicherry, India....
Read the full abstract>>

Rapid quantitative procalcitonin measurement to diagnose nosocomial infections in newborn infants.
Jacquot A, Labaune JM, Baum TP, Putet G, Picaud JC. CHU de Montpellier, Service de Réanimation Néonatale, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier,...
Read the full abstract>>

Group B streptococcal disease in infants: a case control study.
Heath PT, Balfour GF, Tighe H, Verlander NQ, Lamagni TL, Efstratiou A; HPA GBS Working Group. Child Health and Vaccine Institute, St George's, University of London,...
Read the full abstract>>

Moderator Comment

No Comment Availabe yet

Neonatal Infection

Moderator Comment

SIGN IN

ARCHIVE