Bacteria isolated from Blood Cultures of Septicemic children at a teaching Unit

Septicemia is the most prevalent ailment in children responsible for extreme illness and death. for the diagnosis of septicemia,the aim is to separate bacterial agents from blood cultures. for detection of factor responsible for infection in children,this retrospective study was carried out from january 2013 to january 2015 in the pathology department of aziz fatima hospital,faisalabad. 31.3% was culture positive out of a total of 2500 cultures. gram-negative bacteria were 65.3% and 34.7% were gram positive. the most common bacteria detected were escherichia coli (40.4%) which were sensitive to ciprofloxacin,clavulinate-amoxyl,gentamycin and ceftriaxone. ceftriaxone was most desirable among the antibiotics and the use of these antibiotics with supervision studies is advised to preserve their therapeutic efficiency.