ArticleGlobal pediatric health2021
A study of Ophthalmia Neonatorum in the Central Reion of Ghana: Causative Agents and Antibiotic Susceptibility Patterns.
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- Epidemiology of ophthalmia neonatorum: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Neonatal conjunctivitis due to uncommon pathogen Streptococcus mitis/oralis: a case report.BMC ophthalmology · 2026Article
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- Antimicrobial resistance in Enterobacterales infections among children in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Ophthalmia neonatorum complicated with neonatal orbital cellulitis: A case series.Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia · 2024Article
- Intersociety Position Statement on the Prevention of Ophthalmia Neonatorum in Italy.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Antibiotic prophylaxis for ophthalmia neonatorum in Italy: results from a national survey and the Italian intersociety new position statements.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Clinical characteristics of external bacterial ocular and periocular infections and their antimicrobial treatment patterns among a Ghanaian ophthalmic population.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
In developing countries such as Ghana, ophthalmia neonatorum (ON) remains a public health concern. This is because of its unknown etiology patterns, the growing concerns of antibiotic resistance strains and the contribution of ON to childhood blindness. This study was therefore conducted to determine the causative agents, risk factors and the antibiotic sensitivity patterns of micro-organisms associated with ON. A clinic-based prospective study was conducted in the Maternal and Child Health units of 6 health care facilities in the Central region of Ghana over a period of 17 months. Conjunctival swabs were taken from all neonates with clinical signs of ON. Isolation and characterization of bacteria were done using standard microbiological methods. Additionally, data were collected and analyzed on neonate's demographics and clinical features of ON. Microbial growth was recorded in 86 cases (52.4%) out of the 110 neonates assessed. Staphylococcus spp. (39.2% of all positive cultures) was the most common causative organism. No case of gonococcus was isolated. Delivery method, vaginal discharge, administration of prophylaxis and weight of neonate were the risk factors associated with the development of ON (
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