The relevance of sepsis is not in doubt and is due to both high rates of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Modern medicine, it would seem, has many modern and accurate methods of diagnosis and treatment of the septic process, but so far these questions regarding sepsis remain open and debatable. Multicenter studies in intensive care units in hospitals in Europe show that the prevalence of sepsis is increasing, and the attributive mortality rate, despite the downward trend, reaches 50 % or more. The aim of our work was to study the etiological features of sepsis in children. Materials: we conducted a retrospective analysis of cases of sepsis in children over the past 10 years who were treated at the Children’s infectious diseases clinical hospital in Minsk. Results of the study: analysis of sepsis pathogens showed that almost every second case was caused by gram-negative flora (53 %), in 26.1 % of cases – the pathogen was not identified, and even less often gram-positive microorganisms (13.7 %), Candida fungi (0.9 %) and mixed flora (6.3 %) were registered. Conclusions: the etiological structure of sepsis in childhood is diverse and has its own characteristics in each age group.
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