| neonatal septicaemia in calabar, nigeria. | a three-year survey of neonatal septicaemia (363 bacteriologically proven cases) in the university of calabar teaching hospital, calabar, has demonstrated that the dominant blood isolate was staphylococcus aureus (53%) followed by unclassified coliforms (20%), an unexpected chromobacterium violaceum (5%). the incidence of neonatal septicaemia was 54.9 per 1000 live births for inborn infants. the predominant organisms were largely susceptible to gentamicin, ceftriazone and cefuroxime with a morta ... | 2008 | 18453516 |