Brian Montenegro, MD, Staff Neonatologist, Northbay Medical Center, Fairfield, California; UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Oakland, California.
Can you diagnose this infant with neonatal respiratory distress?
A recently immigrated mother from India presents in preterm labor at 32 6/7 weeks and delivers a vigorous baby whose initial blood culture result is positive at 18 hours of life with gram-negative rods.