Puerperal Group A Streptococcal Infection

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 ...

Puerperal Group A Streptococcal Infections: A Case Series and Discussion

Puerperal group A streptococcal infections, a major postpartum killer during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, have become (fortunately) rare. We describe a cluster of 4 serious peripartum group A streptococcal infections occurring within the past five years at a single medical center. These cases were not epidemiologically linked and serve to illustrate the continuing risk of these poten...

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.

The Source of Streptococcal Infection in Puerperal Fever

Immunologic Evidence of Group A Streptococcal Infection

Serum levels of 3 group A streptococcal antibodies were determined in 53 patients prior to mitral commissurotomy and monthly for 3 to 6 months postoperatively. Significant elevation of antibody titers was relatively infrequent prior to commissurotomy and the presence of chronic productive inflammatory lesions in the biopsied atrial appendage was usually unrelated to recent streptococcal infecti...