SALMONELOUS SEPSIS IN A NEWBORN

Abstract

Sepsis is an extremely common cause of maternal mortality, as well as mortality of newborns and children under five years of age. Neonatal sepsis is detected with a frequency of 0.5-8.0 per 1,000 newborns. The highest rates are found in children with low birth weight, infants with depressed function at birth, expressed in low Apgar scores, and infants with maternal perinatal risk factors. According to the WHO resolution, sepsis still causes an estimated six million deaths worldwide every year, most of which are preventable. It is noted that sepsis as a syndromic response to infection is the ultimate common cause of death from most infectious diseases in the world; that sepsis has a special and time-critical clinical course, which in the early stages is largely treatable due to early diagnosis and timely and appropriate clinical management. Currently, sepsis caused by bacteria of the genus Salmonella is extremely rare, especially in newborns. The septic form of salmonellosis is extremely rare, more often at an early age - premature babies, newborns, often in weak, bottle-fed. The main symptoms are symptoms of purulent meningitis, pneumonia, and otitis media. The disease is very severe, with high fever and intoxication for a long time. This article considers a rare case of neonatal sepsis in a 20-day-old child caused by Salmonella enteritidis. We think that the observation presented by us will be of interest to a wide range of specialists: neonatologists, pediatricians, infectious disease specialists.