Table 3.
Outcome of GPB-sepsis
| Outcome | No (%) | EOS | LOS | SFRa (%) | SFRa EOS (%) |
SFRa LOS (%) |
CFRb (%) | CFRb EOS (%) |
CFRb LOS (%) |
No tot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mortality all GBS | 357 (100) | 65 | 292 | 10 (2.8) | 0 (0) | 10 (3.4) | 34 (9.5) | 1 (0.3) | 33 (11.3) | 357 |
| CoNS | 193 (54.0) | 5 | 188 | 6 (3.1) | 0 (0) | 6 (3.2) | 22 (11.4) | 0 (0) | 22 (11.7) | 193 |
| S. aureus | 88 (24.6) | 9 | 79 | 1 (1.1) | 0 (0) | 1 (1.3) | 5 (5.7) | 1 (11.1) | 5 (6.3) | 88 |
| GBS | 49 (13.7) | 43 | 6 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 49 |
| Otherc | 13 (3.6) | 6 | 7 | 1 (7.7) | 0 (0) | 1 (14.3) | 3 (23.1) | 0 (0) | 3 (42.9) | 13 |
| Mixede | 14 (3.9) | 2 | 12 | 2 (14.3) | 0 (0) | 2 (16.7) | 4 (28.6) | 0 (0) | 4 (33.3) | 14 |
| Morbidity | ||||||||||
| All GBS | 200 (56.0) | 357 | ||||||||
| NEC | 84 (23.5) | 357 | ||||||||
| - Medically treated | 69 (19.3) | 0 | 69 | |||||||
| - Surgically treated | 15 (4.2) | 0 | 15 | |||||||
| IVH 3–4 discharge | 34 (10.3) | 5 | 29 | 330 | ||||||
| ROP 3–4 discharge | 46 (18.6) | 4 | 42 | 247 | ||||||
| BPD | 144 (50.9) | 8 | 136 | 283 | ||||||
| Septic chock | 40 (11.3) | 8 | 32 | 354 |
aDeath within 5 days after GPB-positive culture
bDeath before discharge from the neonatal unit
cEnterococcus faecalis (n = 5), Streptococcus pneumoniae (n = 2), viridans group streptococci (n = 3), Group A streptococci (n = 1), Group C/G streptococci (n = 2). Two or more GPB simultaneously; CoNS + S. aureus (n = 4), CoNS + Enterococcus faecalis (n = 3), S. aureus + Enterococcus faecalis (n = 3), CoNS + GBS (n = 2), S. aureus + GBS (n = 1) and CoNS + S. aureus + Enterococcus faecalis (n = 1). NEC necrotizing enterocolitis, IVH intraventricular haemorrhage, ROP retinopathy of the newborn, BPD bronchopulmonary dysplasia, CoNS Coagulase-negative staphylococci and GBS Group B streptococci