Bacteriological profile and antibiotic susceptibility of neonatal sepsis in neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital in Nepal

Table 3 Distribution of isolates based on age at admission and gestational age at birth

Bacterial isolate	Age at admission			Gestational age at birth
Bacterial isolate	< 72 h (EOS)	> 72 h (LOS)	Fisher’s exact test (p-value)	Pre-term	Term	Fisher’s exact test (p-value)
Klebsiella	19	4	0.0025	15	8	0.2100
CONS	11	3	0.0573	8	6	0.7905
Enterobacter	9	4	0.2668	10	3	0.0922
Acinetobacter	6	2	0.2890	5	3	0.7265
Serratia rubidaea	3	0	0.2500	2	1	1.0000
Escherichia coli	2	1	1.0000	3	0	0.2500
Pseudomonas	2	0	0.5000	2	0	0.5000
Bacillus	1	0	1.0000	1	0	1.0000
Staphylococcus aureus	1	0	1.0000	1	0	1.0000
Non-hemolytic streptococcus	0	1	1.0000	0	1	1.0000
Total	54	15		47	22

CONS Coagulase negative staphylococcus, EOS Early onset sepsis, LOS Late onset sepsis

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