Pathogens Identified by Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling in India and Pakistan from Preterm Neonatal Deaths: The PURPOSe Study.

Najia Karim GhanchiImran AhmedJean KimSheetal HarakuniManjunath S SomannavarAfia ZafarShiyam Sunder TikmaniSarah SaleemShivaprasad S GoudarSangappa M DhadedGowdar GuruprasadS YogeshkumarKay HwangAnna AceitunoRobert M SilverElizabeth M McClureRobert L Goldenberg

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)

In organ samples from deceased infants in India and Pakistan, evaluated with multiplex pathogen PCR, A. baumannii was the most commonly identified organism. GBS was rarely found. A. baumannii was rarely found in the placentas of these deceased neonates.

Keyphrases

minimally invasive
kidney transplantation
low birth weight
tertiary care
real time pcr
high throughput
preterm infants
candida albicans
antimicrobial resistance
single cell