Abstract

ALFONSO BIBIANES, Kissel; RODRIGUEZ SWABY, Elizabeth  and  DUTHIL LOPEZ, Sandra. Clinical epidemiological aspects in patients with neonatal infection. MEDISAN [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.8, pp.1037-1046. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive, prospective and cross-sectional study of 69 patients with neonatal infection, born in "Mariana Grajales Coello" Teaching Southern Maternal Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, was carried out from January, 2012 to December, 2013, aimed at characterizing them according to clinical epidemiological aspects. Among the main results the early onset of infection (72.5%), preterm low weight (82.6%), systemic infections (59.4%), vaginal infection as the most frequent maternal risk factor (47.8%), respiratory failure (50.7%), as well as the gramnegative pathogens as the main causative factors prevailed. The early onset of infections showed higher mortality, although in a global way there was a high survival

Keywords : newborn; neonatal infection; low birth weight; secondary health care.