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Our new born baby has an eye discharge and the doctor ask for a laboratory or culture test ob the discharge. The laboratory said "Organism: heavy growth of klebsiella pneumoniae spp. Pneumoniae" what does it mean? What shall we do? Thanks
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Hi... It means the eye got infection which is called conjunctivitis... Needs antibiotic eye drops...
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