26 April 2022

More newborn babies with sepsis are dying because their infections are not responding to the usual antibiotics, according to the biggest global study on the subject yet.

The study’s sponsor, the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), is now designing an interventional trial to identify better treatment regimens. to combat rising resistance.

GARDP’s study, which involved over 3200 newborns diagnosed with sepsis in 11 countries, was released at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) on Tuesday.