Publications by authors named "Rinku Sah"
Clinical, Bacteriological Profile and Outcome of Neonatal Sepsis.
J Nepal Health Res Counc
July 2023
Background: Sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among neonates in Nepal. This study was conducted to determine the clinical-bacteriological profile, their antibiotic susceptibility patterns, and clinical outcome of culture-positive neonatal sepsis.
Methods: This was a prospective study conducted at B.
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- * Symptoms can mimic tuberculosis, leading to diagnostic delays, with cases presenting issues like productive cough, rusty sputum, chest pain, and pleural effusion.
- * Two cases were documented where patients were diagnosed through microscopic examination of sputum, treated with praziquantel, and eventually recovered, highlighting the need for awareness of paragonimiasis in similar lung conditions.
Introduction: are part of the normal flora of the human respiratory tract and are known to have low pathogenic potential. The organism is rarely reported in the literature as the causative agent of meningitis. We report the first case of early-onset neonatal meningitis associated with from Nepal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: primarily an environmental and agricultural organism has been reported as both commensal and pathogen of humans. We present two case reports of infections in children that involved the meninges and bloodstream.
Case Presentations: A 6-month-old female baby, diagnosed as congenital hydrocephalus secondary to aqueduct stenosis with ventriculoperitoneal shunt in situ, operated 14 days back was brought to the pediatric emergency with a two-day history of high fever associated with vomiting, irritability, excessive crying, and decreased feeding.
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia ( S. maltophilia) is an important Gram-negative, non-fermentative, multidrug resistant (MDR) nosocomial organism. We evaluated the isolation of S.
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