Study of clinical profile of sepsis in neonates

Neonatal sepsis is a clinical syndrome of systemic illness that affect this very delicate group in the first month of life. The aim of the present work was to detect the different clinical profiles of neonatal sepsis in neonatal intensive care unit [NICU] in a tertiary level pediatric hospital of ministry of health in Alexandria over one year [2003]. Total number of neonates admitted was 700 over 1 year, out of them 186 cases [26.5%] were initially diagnosed as neonatal sepsis. Only 128 neonates [68.32%] were proved to have sepsis, while the remaining cases 58 [31.18%] suffered from conditions that mimic sepsis