TY - JOUR T1 - Neonatal sepsis in Peshawar JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F233 LP - F233 DO - 10.1136/fn.87.3.F233-a VL - 87 IS - 3 AU - S A Ali AU - T A Khan AU - A K M Zaidi Y1 - 2002/11/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/87/3/F233.2.abstract N2 - We wish to raise a few concerns regarding the study reported by Rahman and colleagues.1We found it surprising that only five species of microorganisms were isolated in this series of over 1000 blood cultures obtained from neonates with sepsis. Similar studies done in other major cities of Pakistan, with much smaller sample sizes, have shown a wider spectrum of pathogens. Anwer et al2 showed 11 species types in … ER -