Candida Species in Neonatal Sepsis : A Retrospective Study in MIMS, Mandya
Journal Title: IJAR-Indian Journal of Applied Research - Year 2015, Vol 5, Issue 7
Abstract
Neonatal sepsis although has classically been attributed to bacterial organisms, prevalenc-e of fun gal sepsis among the neonates is on a rise in the present era of antibiotics. Most fungal infections in neonates are due to Candida species; a much smaller number may be attributed to Malassezia, Zygomycetes or Aspergillus.A total of 128 blood samples with clinical suspicion of neonatal sepsis were processed in the Microbiology laboratory from Jan 2014 till Dec 2014( 1 year).Among 128 blood samples processed, Candida species was isolated in 17 blood samples. The isolation rate was 13.3%. Among 17 candida isolates, 7(41.2%) were isolated from early onset septicaemia(EOS) and 10 (58.8%) from late onset septicaemia(LOS).Only 3(17.6%) isolates were from female babies.3(42.8%) from EOS and 4(40%) from LOS were non albicans candida.We found that Candidaalbicans was more isolated than Non albicans Candida both in early and late onset septicaemia
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Dr. Mamatha P Samaga
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