neonatal sepsis

neonatal sepsis

Sepsis of newborn, septicemia of newborn Pediatrics A severe systemic infection of the newborn caused primarily by group B streptococcus, a bacterium found in the GI and GU tracts, which causes ±³/₄ of neonatal sepsis Risk factors Mom with group B strep infection with transplacental dissemination or by direct innoculation as the baby slides through the birth canal, PROM, prematurity, immune defects, some congenital defects