Culture‐proven neonatal sepsis in preterm infants in a neonatal intensive care unit over a 7 year period: Coagulase‐negative <i><scp>S</scp>taphylococcus</i> as the predominant pathogen

Abstract

CONS was found to be the most common causative organism in three sepsis types in preterm neonates. Although the mortality rate due to CONS was lower in EOS, it was an important cause of mortality in LOS and VLOS. CONS seems to be the main pathogen in neonatal sepsis in developing countries, as in developed countries.