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Neonatal sepsis in Peshawar
  1. S Rahman
  1. St Mary’s Hospital, Praed Street, London W2 1NY, UK; sajjadjan@hotmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/fn.88.2.F160

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    I am responding to the letter of Ali et al.1

    (1) The total number of babies (1598) and number of culture positive babies (1003) in our article2 represent the number of cases after removal of patients meeting the exclusion criteria. We did find isolated cases of Streptococcus sp, Salmonella, and Enterococci, but they happened to fall in the excluded group.

    These organisms accounted for < 0.5% of the spectrum as a whole. This is similar to the findings of Maryam et al3 in a public sector institution with a population of similar socioeconomic, cultural, religious, and climatic background. Their study was carried out in …

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