Increasing Trends of Methicillin Resistant Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus in Neonatal Septicaemia - A Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Mysore, South India
Introduction: Neonatal septicaemia is one among the leading causes of neonatal mortality in India. For the last 20 years CoNS has been identified as a major cause of neonatal septicaemia in NICU. Different studies show 70-75% of CoNS as resistant to methicillin. Material and methods: Blood samples f...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Light House Polyclinic Mangalore
2011-01-01
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Series: | Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences |
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Online Access: | http://www.ojhas.org/issue36/2010-4-11.htm |