Incidence and antibiotic profile of bacterial isolates from neonatal septicemia in national medical college and teaching hospital, Birgunj, Nepal

Male and female neonatal sepsis was included in this study. Positive blood culture was observed in the study with positive male cases 43.53% than female 41.17%. The gram positive isolates 82.6% were found more than gram negative isolates 16.4%.The most common isolates were Staphylococcus aureus 66 (86.9%), Klebsiella pneumonia 9 (60%) and others. Staphylococcus aureus showed resistant against penicillin G, ceftazidime, cephalexin, cefixime, ampicillin, ofloxacine, ceftriazone, imipenem, azithromycin used antibiotics.