Maternal Intrapartum Group B Streptococcal Prophylaxis and Childhood Atopic Disorders

Duration of intrapartum prophylaxis for neonatal group B streptococcal disease: a systematic review.

OBJECTIVE To examine published evidence regarding duration of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis administered to pregnant women colonized with group B Streptococcus (GBS) to reduce infant colonization with GBS and to prevent early-onset GBS sepsis. DATA SOURCES A search was conducted in The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (The Cochrane Library, Issue 1, 2006), MEDLINE (1966 to ...

Effectiveness of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of early-onset group B streptococcal disease.

OBJECTIVE To estimate the effectiveness against early-onset group B streptococcal (GBS) disease of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis among term and preterm deliveries, deliveries with fewer than 4 hours of antibiotics, and deliveries receiving clindamycin regimens. METHODS We performed a secondary analysis of the Birthnet cohort, a survey of 7,691 births to residents of the Active Bacterial ...

Early Gut Microbiota Perturbations Following Intrapartum Antibiotic Prophylaxis to Prevent Group B Streptococcal Disease

The faecal microbiota composition of infants born to mothers receiving intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis with ampicillin against group B Streptococcus was compared with that of control infants, at day 7 and 30 of life. Recruited newborns were both exclusive breastfed and mixed fed, in order to also study the effect of dietary factors on the microbiota composition. Massive parallel sequencing o...

Maternal and neonatal group B streptococcal bacteriuria.

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 ...