Neonatal Sepsis Project

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Background
Objectives

Background

• Because intrapartum antibiotics are a strategy used in the prevention of neonatal GBS disease, it is important to evaluate the impact of antibiotics on the incidence of early-onset neonatal sepsis, including non-GBS disease on the occurrence of antibiotic-resistant neonatal pathogens.
  
  

Objectives

• Determine the incidence and causes of neonatal sepsis
  
  
• Determine the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of organisms causing neonatal sepsis
  
  
• Determine the impact of intrapartum antibiotic use on neonatal sepsis