Critical Bacterial Infection Rate Found in South African Newborns SouthAfrica Sepsis GatesFoundation newborns hospitals bacteria drugresistant
has found that newborn mortality rates remain high despite efforts to reduce deaths in children aged younger than 5 years. Additionally, 42% of deaths were found to occur in the sub-Saharan Africa region with infections found to be the leading cause of these deaths.
The study, which has been noted as the first national population-level analysis of invasive newborn infections in the local public health sector and was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, analysed samples of blood and cerebrospinal fluid culture pathology reports from newborn babies at 256 public-sector hospitals. It found that the majority of infections occurred 3 days after birth and that many were caused by multi-drug-resistant bacteria.
A six-year study conducted by the Baby GERMS-SA team, led by experts from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases , a division of the National Health Laboratory…
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