pediatrics
Neonatal Sepsis
Prognosis for Neonatal Sepsis
The fatality rate is 2 to 4 times higher in LBW infants than in full-term infants. The overall mortality rate of early-onset sepsis is 3 to 40% (that of early-onset GBS infection is 2 to 10%) and of late-onset sepsis is 2 to 20% (that of late-onset GBS is about 2%). Mortality in late-onset sepsis highly depends on the etiology of the infection; infections caused by gram-negative bacilli orCandidaspecies have rates of up to 32 to 36%. In addition to mortality, extremely LBW infants who develop bacterial or candidal sepsis have a significantly greater risk of poor neurodevelopmental outcome. 