The Factors Increasing The Prevalence Of Neonatal Sepsis At Kagadi Hospital-kibaale District

ABSTRACTNeonatal sepsis (NS) is a severe systemic bacterial infection in newborn infants within the first 4 weeks of life. NS claims over 1.5 million infant lives each year, the majority in sub-SaharanAfrica and southern Asia. There are two classes of NS: early onset, within the first week of life presumed to be acquiredfrom prenatal and intrapartum maternal transmission, and late onset within weeks 2–4 of life from environmental and nosocomial sources (Nelson Text book of Pediatrics volume1 by Kliegman, Behrman, Jenson, and Stanton page 798).It is a syndrome expressing bot…