Among the 981,869 children, 0.8% were diagnosed with sepsis and less than 0.1% diagnosed with meningitis; overall, 1.2% of children developed epilepsy during the study period. Children with clinically ...

Discover more about the effectiveness of WHO-recommended first-line antibiotics for neonatal sepsis, according to new ...

A genetic signature in newborns can predict neonatal sepsis before symptoms even start to show, according to a new study. The study, led by University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University ...

A major multi-country study has found that WHO-recommended first-line antibiotics for neonatal sepsis are likely to be effective in only one quarter of infections in low- and middle-income countries ...

"Neonatal sepsis is one of the major causes of death among children in the first 28 days of life," says study senior author Dr. Davidson Hamer, professor of global health and medicine at BUSPH and BU ...

Neonatal care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains a cornerstone of global child health, yet progress in reducing neonatal mortality has not ...

Sepsis leads to life-threatening organ failure due to dysregulated host responses to infection and presents uniquely across age groups. Neonatal sepsis, affecting infants in their first 28 days, ...

A new study found that a multifaceted infection prevention and control intervention could at least temporarily thwart outbreaks of infections from the Klebsiella pneumoniae bacterium, a leading cause ...

Sepsis is a leading cause of neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), caused in large part by bloodstream infections from the multidrug-resistant pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae ...

Sepsis is a factor in more than 10% of non-neonatal pediatric hospitalizations as well as almost 18% of those patients’ in-hospital deaths, according to a recently published estimate built on ...