Active clinical trials for "Neonatal Sepsis"

Prospective, multinational, multicentre, observational cohort study of neonatal sepsis in partner institutions. The cohort study will be designed to evaluate health care utilization and current clinical practice and to assess risk factors for and outcomes of babies with neonatal sepsis (culture-negative and culture-positive).

The use of neutrophil lymphocyte ratio is useful for the detection of infection status in newborns after surgery

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To investigate biomarker reflects systemic or specific organ perfusion well, we are going to the observational comparison study using several hemodynamic monitoring methods in the premature infants. It includes near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), pulse oximetry with perfusion index (PI) and pleth variability index (PVI) and functional echocardiography.

The aim of this study was to clarify the prognostic value of serum pro-Adrenomedullin level in neonatal sepsis. Eighty term and preterm neonates with sepsis were enrolled in this study. Eighty healthy matched neonates served as a control group.

The purpose of the study is to characterize innate immune function of premature infants, and identify defects that may be responsible for the development of bacterial sepsis.

Hypoxemia is an abnormally low concentration of oxygen in the blood, and is an important sign of cardio-respiratory compromise in acutely ill patients. Pulse oximetry (PO) is a rapid, portable, non-invasive and accurate method of measuring arterial hemoglobin oxygenation (Sp02), and can therefore be readily implemented to detect hypoxemia in the clinical setting. In this research study, we propose to test the hypothesis that the use of pulse oximetry to detect hypoxemia by first-level health workers' in Karachi, Pakistan is useful and feasible for the identification of the infants most urgently in need of medical care. We will enroll 1,400 infants 0-59 days of age who present to one of two primary health centers in Karachi. Infants will undergo brief clinical assessment by a community health worker (CHW) based on the WHO/UNICEF Integrated Management of Neonatal and Child Illness (IMNCI) algorithm, assessment by two pulse oximetry devices, and examination by a physician. The primary outcomes include prevalence of hypoxemia, feasibility of PO (e.g., time to obtain measurement, number of infants for who repeat measurements are required), and concordance between paired measurements on separate devices.

The Haptoglobin (Hp) gene locus at chromosome 16q22 is polymorphic with two alleles denoted 1 and 2 .The gene product exists in three phenotypes: 1-1, 2-1, and 2-2. The Haptoglobin 2 allele is found only in man and is believed to have arisen from the Haptoglobin 1 allele by a partial intragenic duplication. Haptoglobin 2 allele frequency is higher than the Haptoglobin 1 allele. It has been hypothesized that the Haptoglobin 2 allele was spread in man due to its selective advantage against life-threatening infections. In vitro, only the Haptoglobin 2 allele protein, binds to the streptococcus T antigen, resulting in its aggregation and slowing its growth . Individuals homozygous for the Haptoglobin 1 allele (1-1 genotype) are more prone to the streptococcal infection than individuals with the Haptoglobin 2 allele(2-1 or 2-2 genotype). The investigators wish to explore the linkage between Hp phenotype and sepsis in pre-term neonates, considering that in this early stage in life, genetic properties which provide a defense against infectious agents will be of heightened importance.

The aim of the project is to study neonatal immune dysfunction associated to the risk of newborn sepsis in a malaria endemic area in Benin.

This study seeks to identify and test host RNA expression profiles in context to protein biomarkers in dried blood spot samples as novel diagnostic markers of neonatal herpes simplex virus infection and to improve the understanding of the pathogenesis of the disease.