Role of complete blood cell count parameters in the diagnosis of neonatal sepsis

BMC Pediatrics

Table 1 Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of study participants at UoG-CSH Northwest Ethiopia in 2021, N = 250

Variables	Categories	Case	Control
Sex	Female	43	63
Sex	Male	82	62
Age in days	< 3	37	51
	4–7	37	32
	7–28	51	42
Types of sepsis (n = 125)	EOS	37	0
Types of sepsis (n = 125)	LOS	88	0
Axial fever (>38oc)	Yes	4	11
Axial fever (>38oc)	No	121	114
Hypothermia	Yes	2	4
Hypothermia	No	123	121
Increased respiratory rate	Yes	31	12
Increased respiratory rate	No	94	113
Suspicious of pneumonia	Yes	11	12
Suspicious of pneumonia	No	114	113
Suspicious of meningitis	Yes	3	13
Suspicious of meningitis	No	122	112
Antibiotic therapy	Yes	68	77
Antibiotic therapy	No	40	56
Type of organism isolated	S. aureus	10 (4.0%)	0
	P. mirabilis	3 (1.2%)	0
	S. viridans	8 (3.2%)	0
	Providencia species	2 (0.8%)	0
	Citrobacter	1 (0.4%)	0
	Shigella species	2 (0.8%)	0
	K. pneumoniae	26 (10.4%)	0
	E. coli	7 (2.8%)	0
	CoNS	49 (19.6%)	0
	Enterococcus species	6 (2.4%)	0
	Acinetobacter Species	3 (1.2%)	0
	K. ozanae	2 (0.8%)	0
	E. cloacae	2(0.8%)	0
	NLF-GNR	4 (1.6%)	0

EOS early onset symptom, LOS late onset symptom, UTI urinary tract infection, CoNS coagulase negative staphylococci, NLF-GNR non lactose fermenter gram negative rods

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