Neonatal Outcomes Eight Years After Universal Screening and Non-selective Intrapartum Antibiotics for Maternal Group B Streptococcal Carriers 1451

Maternal and neonatal group B streptococcal bacteriuria.

Randomized Clinical Trial of Intrapartum Clindamycin Cream for Reduction of Group B Streptococcal Maternal and Neonatal Colonization

OBJECTIVE In a randomized trial, we sought to determine whether 2% clindamycin cream administered intravaginally during labor to group B streptococcal-colonized pregnant women without risk factors would decrease maternal and neonatal colonization. METHODS The eligible women were randomized to receive either cream or no treatment. Two hours after treatment or admission, the patients were teste...

Neonatal & maternal group B streptococcal infections: a comprehensive review.

Group B Streptococcus is an important cause of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in many parts of the world. The last two decades have seen intensified efforts in the Western hemisphere in the prevention of this devastating infection by identifying and treating pregnant women who carry group B streptococci or who are at highest risk of transmitting the organism to newborns. The intr...

Neonatal group B streptococcal meningitis.

Bacteriological and clinical data on 68 children with neonatal group B streptococcal meningitis were analysed as part of a wider study of bacterial meningitis undertaken between 1976 and 1982. Twenty five per cent of patients died and there was no difference in the mortality rate between early and late onset disease. Sixteen per cent of the infants weighed less than 2500 g at birth but in 50% n...

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 ...