Aim: The aim of this study was to detect the most common causative organism causing neonatal sepsis in women suffered preterm prelabour rupture of membranes and if it is different from that of the maternal genital swab.Materials and Methods: This study was carried out on 200 pregnant women with PPROM at gestational age between 23 weeks plus 6 days to 28 weeks. Genital swabs were taken for microbiological study and all women were managed conservatively. After delivery, buccal and nasal swab were taken from the neonates and the detected organism(s) were correlated with those detected from the mothers' swabs. Also, neonatal outcome was studied regarding incidence of neonatal sepsis, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) admission and neonatal mortality.Results: From the 200 enrolled cases and their neonates, there were thirty-three neonates (16.5%) that were admitted to the NICU with twenty-one neonates (67.8%) of them suffering neonatal sepsis. Only thirteen neonates (61.9%) of those who had suffered sepsis shared the same organisms with their mothers. The other eight cases (38.1%) had different organisms. The most frequent organism regarding maternal vaginal swabs was Escherichia coli followed by Group B Streptococci sharing the same frequency with non-hemolytic Streptococci, Staphylococcus aureus and Group A streptococci sharing the same frequency with Klebsiella species.Conclusion: E-coli is the most common causative organism for neonatal sepsis in PPROM before 28 weeks of gestation.
This experiment was carried out at the farm of Royal Herbs Company Bahria Oases Giza in a newly reclaimed desert land under the drip irrigation system during two successive seasons 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 with the aim of studying the effect of organic fertilizer (compost) and bio fertilization treatments {phosphorein (PHOS) – Effective microorganisms (EM) Minia azoteine (MA) and their combinations} and their interaction on oil production and some chemical compounds, namely, photosynthetic pigments (chlorophyll a, b and carotenoids) and nutrients percentage (N, P and K %) on fennel plants. The obtained results indicated that the application of compost significantly increased oil productivity in the seeds (oil%, oil yield per plant and per feddan) and the studied chemical components (chlorophyll a, b and carotenoids; and N, P and K%), the best treatment was 20-ton compost/fed. All studied parameters were significantly affected by bio-fertilization; the best treatment was PHOS + EM + MA . Aslo, the interaction effect between the two factors was significant and the best interaction treatment was compost at 15 or 20 ton/fed. with (PHOS + EM + MA) of bio-fertilization in the two seasons.