Childhood Septicemia in Nepal: Documenting the Bacterial Etiology and Its Susceptibility to Antibiotics

Table 1

Distribution of total and positive cases.

Age	Total cases ()		Positive cases ()
	Male	Female	Male	Female	value
1–11 months	210	136	28	29	0.028
1–5 years	295	187	26	22
6–10 years	269	144	18	15
11–15 years	242	147	22	12
Total	1016 (62.3%)	614 (37.7%)	94 (54.6%)	78 (45.4%)