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Combination of C-Reactive Protein, Erythrosedimentation Rate and White blood cell for the Detection of Gram Negative Bacteremia in Children under 9 Years Old | ||
| Medical Journal of Babylon | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-67 | ||
| Author | ||
| Haider Sh. Aubais | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Bacteremia caused by gram negative bacteria isolated randomly from 80 children aging 0-9 years was studied from first of February/ 2008- end of June/ 2008 for their susceptibility profile. The various isolates were Escherichia coli (39 isolates,48.75%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (23 isolates,28.75%) and Proteus spp (18 isolates, 22.5%). Males were more infected (70%) than females. Antibiotics susceptibility pattern of these isolates against 28 different antibiotics revealed that norfloxacin, ofloxacin, tobramycin and amikacin were effective for treatment of gram negative bacteremia. Azithromycin, bacitracin, erythromycin, kanamycin, oxytetracyclin and rifamycin were found to be non effective against isolated organisms. The level of CRP in sera of 71.2% patients was more than 24 mg/dL and this concentration revealed to bactermia while the value of WBC was > 15000 / mm in 82.5% of patients and ESR was found to be >35mm/h in 100% of patients. In this study we found that the addition of CRP testing to that of WBC and ESR ensure the detecting of bacteremia. | ||
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