Group A Streptococcus puerperal sepsis: an emerging obstetric infection?

Analysis of a Streptococcus pyogenes Puerperal Sepsis Cluster using Whole-

word count: 233 words 15 16 Corresponding author: Mark J. Walker: Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, 17 School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 18 QLD 4072, Australia. Tel: (61) 7-3346-1623. Fax: (61) 7-3365-4273. E-mail: 19 [email protected]. 20 21 Copyright © 2012, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. J. Clin. ...

Puerperal and intrapartum group A streptococcal infection.

OBJECTIVE To determine the demographic and clinical variables characteristic of non-epidemic intrapartum or puerperal group A streptococcal (GAS) infection. METHODS The records of 47 patients diagnosed with intrapartum or puerperal GAS infection over a 6 1/2 year period at Hadassah-University Hospital-Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem were reviewed. Data regarding 25,811 women, the general population of ...

Group A Streptococcal Puerperal Sepsis: Historical Review and 1990s Resurgence

There appears to be a resurgence of puerperal sepsis due to a historically important pathogen, group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus.

Puerperal Sepsis: A Review

An Account of an Epidemic of Puerperal Sepsis Due to Streptococcus Hæmolyticus *Read 11th March 1925.

coccus haemolyticus, and, with the exception of Case No. I., all developed septicaemia and died within a period of three weeks during the month of February. The infection in Case No. I. occurred in January. The patient was admitted in the first stage of labour, with a temperature of over ioo?F. and a history of " chills and feverishness" for one week previous to admission. Her temperature incre...