Antibiotic resistance causing more babies to die of neonatal sepsis, global study reveals | Health24 - News24


4/28/2022 12:00:00 AM3 yearsago
by Compiled by Zakiyah Ebrahim

A large global study has found that newborns all over the world are increasingly dying of neonatal sepsis, a blood infection, caused by drug-resistant bacterial infections.

An increasing number of newborn babies with clinically diagnosed sepsis are dying as a result of antibiotic resistance, a new global study has found.  Since newborns don’t yet have an immune system … [+504 chars]

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