Neonatal Candidemia: Clinical Presentation, Laboratory Profile, Risk Factors and Immediate Outcome in a Tertiary Hospital in Kerala- A Case-Control Study
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neonatal candidemia, silent hypoxemia, sub threshold feed tolerance
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Objective: To identify the clinical and laboratory profile and risk factors of bloodstream candida infection in newborns and to assess the immediate outcome of candidemia in newborns. Design: Case - control study. Setting: Tertiary care NICU of Govt. T.D. Medical College, Alappuzha, Kerala from 1st January 2010 to 31st December 2014. Methods: Through consecutive sampling, we got 94 cases and 188 controls. For comparison, chi-square test was used, and for strength association Odds ratio was used. Analysis was done using SPSS V18. Binary logistic regression has been used to identify independent risk factors.
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2020-05-15
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