The Pediatric infectious disease journal
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Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. · Aug 1997
A prospective study of neonatal sepsis and meningitis in southern Israel.
To study the epidemiology of neonatal sepsis and meningitis in the Negev area of southern Israel. ⋯ Neonatal sepsis and meningitis rates in southern Israel are similar to those reported in Western Europe and the United States. The incidence of neonatal sepsis is significantly higher for Bedouins than for Jewish neonates. The distribution of the main pathogens is different in southern Israel and although Gram-negative enteric organisms are predominant, S. agalactiae plays a relatively minor role in the etiology of sepsis during the first month of life. In southern Israel the etiology of community-acquired late onset sepsis is different from that of nosocomial late onset sepsis.