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Volume 4, Issue 7(Suppl) J Infect Dis Ther 2016
ISSN: 2332-0877, JIDT an open access journal
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Skin Diseases & Microbiology 2016
October 03-05, 2016
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Prevalence of bacterial bloodstream infections of neonates in Benin City, Nigeria
Aziegbemhin S A and Enabulele O I
University of Benin, Nigeria
Blood from 136 neonates admitted at the neonatal units of some hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria and vaginal swab samples of their
mothers were obtained and processed using standard microbiological protocols. The most common manifestation of infectious
disease amongst the neonates was sepsis (33.8%) followed by pneumonia (27.3%) and meningitis (6.6%). About 13% of the neonates
have low birth weight. The most commonly isolated bacteria from both neonatal samples were Staphylococcus aureus (27.9%) and
Klebsiella oxytoca (22.1%); while Streptococcus pneumonia (1.5%) was the least isolated. Staphylococcus aureus (19.1%) and Klebsiella
oxytoca (13.2%) were the most frequently isolated bacteria frommaternal swab samples while Proteus mirabilis were the least isolated.
Neonatal bacterial isolates were most sensitive to gentamicin (70.6%) and least sensitive to cloxacillin (1.00%). Similarly, maternal
bacterial isolates were most sensitive to gentamicin (58.1%) and least sensitive to cloxacillin (8.09%). Bacterial isolates from neonates
and their mothers harbored resistant plasmids. Most neonatal and maternal bacterial isolates were positive for hemolysin. They
also showed intermediate and full resistance to the bactericidal action of normal serum. These results show a high rate of neonatal
bacterial infections among neonates born in Benin City, Nigeria which have implications for neonatal survival.
Biography
Aziegbemhin S A is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Microbiology, University of Benin, Nigeria. He has obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Microbiology
(Medical Microbiology) from the University of Benin. He has high research bias for infectious disease studies, environmental/public health and immunology (host-pathogen
interaction studies). He has authored 4 journal publications. He has done some studies on bacterial infections in neonates as well as post-partum mothers in Benin City,
Nigeria. He is a winner of the Brenda Howe Africa Scholarship 2012, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom.
Aziegbemhin S A et al., J Infect Dis Ther 2016, 4:7(Suppl)