FATIHA BENNAOUI
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit , Mother and Child Hospital, Mohammed VI Marrakech University Hospital, Morocco.
Title: Blood culture : bacterial infections of newborns admitted from maternity
Biography
Biography: FATIHA BENNAOUI
Abstract
Blood culture provides an undeniable ideal aid in the diagnosis of neonate infection, its result is reliable. The aim of our study was to evaluate the bacteriological profile of bacteremia, admitted newborns from maternity hospital IBN TOFAIL.
Retrospective study on the cases of newborns hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care, University hospital Mohamed VI,Marrakesh, originating from the delivery room of the gynecology-obstetric department IBN TOFAIL, over a period of 6 months, June to November 2016.Of the 125 blood cultures collected, 43 were positive, representing an over all positivity rate of 34.4%. Positive staphylococcal coagulase negative hemocultures were 27. Other bacteremias were 16, consisting essentially of multiresistant germs with the predominance of Klebsiella pneumoniae (5 cases), followed by Acinetobacter Baumanii (4 cases) and Serratia marcescens in 3 cases.
The bacteremia on admission ; especially to multiresistant germs presents a major problem of therapeutic management.We emphasize the necessity to improve the conditions of delivery in our context and to develop new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.