Researchers are calling for an urgent overhaul of diagnostic and treatment guidelines for infections in newborn babies, after a University of Sydney-led study revealed frontline treatments for sepsis ...

Perinatal and neonatal infections are critical concerns within neonatology and maternal-fetal medicine, representing a leading cause of morbidity and ...

"Until meningitis is ruled out through lumbar puncture, septic very-low-birth-weight infants at high risk of mortality should receive empiric antimicrobials with high delivery through the blood-brain ...

A genetic signature in newborns can predict neonatal sepsis before symptoms even start to show, according to a new study. The study, led by University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University ...

Study of 201 countries finds neonatal sepsis rates declining overall, but mortality tracks hunger and inequality, exposing persistent regional disparities.

A major international study has assessed key bacterial targets that could form the basis of a new maternal vaccine to protect newborns from life-threatening infections. The University of Strathclyde ...

Among the 981,869 children, 0.8% were diagnosed with sepsis and less than 0.1% diagnosed with meningitis; overall, 1.2% of children developed epilepsy during the study period. Children with clinically ...