Letter to the Editor: Outpatient Administration of Antibiotics in Neonatal Sepsis
- Author:
Navin Kumar Devaraj
1
Author Information
1. Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Publication Type:Letter
- Keywords:
Neonatal Sepsis;
Antibiotics
- MeSH:
Neonatal Sepsis;
Antibiotics
- From:Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences
2019;15(1):78--
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
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Abstract:
This study emulates the findings of a study by Zaidi et al. in Pakistan in which the authors reported the similar success story (2). Similar success has been reported in a randomized trial in Africa that found treatment of pneumonia in the neonate by either oral penicillin or procaine benzylpenicillin and gentamycin to be as equally effective (3). The author is confident that this method of combining of both inpatient and outpatient administration of antibiotics for neonatal sepsis will be successful in our local setting due to high quality medical care that is offered by both government and private medical facilities here with many health clinics supporting the local hospitals.
- Full text:11.2019my0349.pdf
