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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Main Authors: Deepa S, Amruta Kumari B, Venkatesha D
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Light House Polyclinic Mangalore 2011-01-01
Series:Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.ojhas.org/issue36/2010-4-11.htm