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A 20-day-old girl presented with prolonged neonatal jaundice, lethargy, and poor feeding treated as sepsis by empirical antibiotics and nothingby mouth

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A 20-day-old girl presented with  prolonged neonatal jaundice, lethargy, and poor feeding treated as sepsis by empirical antibiotics and nothingby mouth. The patient got partial response,when oral feeding resumed,the condition deteriorate again. In this condition,the blood culture MOST likely reveals growth of

  1. Escherichia coli
  2. Staphylococcal aureus
  3. group B streptococcus
  4. Listeria monocytogens
  5. Pseudomonas aeruglnosa
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(A). Patients with galactosemia are at increased risk for Escherichia coli neonatal sepsis; the onset of sepsis often precedes the diagnosis of galactosemia

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