Microbiologically confirmed infection type | Prescriptions (%) | Neonates (%) |
Coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteraemia | 7 (1.7) | 5 (2.3) |
Candidaemia* | 4 (1.0) | 2 (0.9) |
Other† | 4 (1.0) | 2 (0.9) |
Total‡ | 15 (3.6) | 9 (4.2) |
*One infant had Candida glabrata and coagulase-negative Staphylococcus in blood cultures and was treated with liposomal amphotericin B. The other had C. albicans in blood culture. This infant was treated with fluconazole for indication ‘candidaemia’ and benzylpenicillin and cefotaxime for indication ‘sepsis’.
†One infant had Gram-positive cocci detected in blood culture, awaiting species confirmation at time of audit. The other had pneumonia with Klebsiella oxytoca isolated from endotracheal tube aspirate culture.
‡Only one infant with microbiologically confirmed infection met the criteria for early-onset sepsis, with as yet unidentified Gram-positive cocci in blood culture.