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Anchana Devi
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Pushpa
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The present study was designed to determine the incidence and causative
organisms of bacterial sepsis in neonates by using blood culture techniques
in the infected neonates and to evaluate the contribution made by C-reactive
protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), white cell count
(WCC) and haemoglobin in mothers. Of this CRP, ESR, WCC were very high,
but hemoglobin count was low in most of the sepsis mothers. Assessing
CRP, ESR, WCC is a more reliable way to indicate sepsis and it was noted
that the gram-negative bacteria are responsible for septicemia in maximum
number of cases. |
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Pushpa
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Mohan Lohano
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Mumtaz Memon
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Pneumonia is the leading cause of childhood mortality especially
in developing countries affecting approximately 151 million cases each year.
Malnutrition especially deficiency of micronutrients such as zinc, has shown
to increased incidence and severity of pneumonia. In developing countries zinc
deficiency is common in children due to lack of intake of animal foods and high
dietary phytates (myoinositol hexaphosphate) content. This study was designed
to document the association of serum zinc level with severe pneumonia in children
of 2-60 months age. A case-control study was conducted in the department of
physiology, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro and
cases were collected from outpatient department of pediatrics, Liaquat Medical
College and Hospital Jamshoro, Sindh-Pakistan. Fifty cases of severe pneumonia
and fifty cases of control group of same age, sex and nutritional status were
recruited for the study. Mean ±SD serum zinc level of group I was 184.92
±44.11 μg/dl and it was 206.76 ±47.59 μg /dl for group
II, which was highly significant statistically (p = 0.019). |
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