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Received: 15 December 2018

Accepted: 1 February 2019

First Online: 20 February 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The research proposal was presented and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Arsi University and ethical clearance was obtained with ethical clearance certificate number of CoHS/CS/001/2016/17. Individual verbal consent of participation was obtained from mothers/ care givers of eligible neonates before starting interviews/laboratory sampling. The participation was purely voluntary and confidentiality and privacy were maintained by conducting interviews in separate spaces whenever possible. Benefits of the laboratory test were clearly communicated to mothers/care givers and for patients whose blood culture results showed positive growth, susceptibility-based antibiotics were started.

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