Bacteremia in children under 5 years of age before using antibiotics

ABSTRACT

From June 2002 to April 2003, at the Department of Transmissible diseases and the Department of Neonate infants of the Central Hospital of Pediatry and at the Department of Pediatry of Bach Mai Hospital, 189 blood samples of under 5 years old children, who did not use antibiotics within 7 days, underwent a culture. From them, 28 strains of 11 genera of bacteria were isolated. The rate of positive blood culture accounted for 14.8%, in neonate infants 19.6%, there were 71.3% sepsis among under 1 year old children, among them gram(+) bacteria 53.5% were with mainly staphyloccocus, gram(-) bacteria mainly Klebsiella pneumoniae and E.Coli 45.6%. Some bacteria were resistant to common antibiotics such as ampicillin and chloramphenicol