Researchers are calling for an urgent overhaul of diagnostic and treatment guidelines for infections in newborn babies, after a University of Sydney-led study revealed frontline treatments for sepsis ...

A UCL (University College London) global observational study, which involved more than 3,200 newborn babies suffering from sepsis in 19 hospitals in 11 countries, has shown that many newborns are ...

"Until meningitis is ruled out through lumbar puncture, septic very-low-birth-weight infants at high risk of mortality should receive empiric antimicrobials with high delivery through the blood-brain ...

A major international study has assessed key bacterial targets that could form the basis of a new maternal vaccine to protect ...

A genetic signature in newborns can predict neonatal sepsis before symptoms even start to show, according to a new study. The study, led by University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University ...

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Among the 981,869 children, 0.8% were diagnosed with sepsis and less than 0.1% diagnosed with meningitis; overall, 1.2% of children developed epilepsy during the study period. Children with clinically ...