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Abstract
Nosocomial infection also called ”hospital acquired infection” can be defined as: an infection acquired in hospital by a patient who was admitted for a reason other than that infection. An infection occurring in a patient in a hospital or other health care facility in whom the infection was not present or incubating at the time of admission”. The majority of hospital acquired infections become evident 48 hours or more following admission.(WHO,2002)
Hospital acquired infections are associated with significant morbidity and increased mortality and impact on the healthcare system. (Revalas,2012)
There have been wide variations in the reported incidence rates of HAIs rates among different hospitals in Egypt. This discrepancy in HAI rates could be not only attributed to the infection control policies and the surveillance system in every place, but also due to differences in defining, identifying and reporting HAI as there are differences in reporting it, particularly the timing of onset.
Blood culture is the gold standard for the diagnosis of neonatal sepsis but its positivity rate is low and is affected by blood volume inoculated, prenatal antibiotic use and 1evel of bacteremia and 1aboratory capabilities.(Zea-Vera& Ochoa,2015)
Our study is a cross-sectional descriptive study in the neonatal intensive care unit at Suez Canal University Hospital including neonates (0- 28 day) who are full term and late preterm (34th – 36th weeks).
The present study was performed to identify risk factors for HAI, identification of the causative pathogens of hospital associated infections and its anti-microbial susceptibility pattern.