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Group B streptococcal infections

Australia

• Queensland Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Guidelines Program
  • Supplement: Early onset Group B streptococcal disease [2011]
  • Early onset Group B streptococcal disease [2011]

Canada

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Management of group B streptococcal bacteriuria in pregnancy. Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada [2012]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Management of group B streptococcal bacteriuria in pregnancy [2012]
  • The prevention of early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal disease [2004]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Vaginal chlorhexidine during labour to prevent early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal infection
  • Intramuscular penicillin for the prevention of early onset group B streptococcal infection in newborn infants

Netherlands

• Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
  • Epidemiology of neonatal group B streptococcal disease in the Netherlands before and after introduction of guidelines for prevention [2007]

United Kingdom

• Health Protection Agency
  • Group B Streptococcal Infections

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Prenatal screening and treatment strategies to prevent group B streptococcal and other bacterial infections in early infancy [2007]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • The prevention of early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal disease. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists [2012]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • The Prevention of Early-onset Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease [2012]
  • Group B strep and water birth - query bank [2011]
  • Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis for GBS in a prior pregnancy - query bank [2010]

United States of America

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Recommendations for the Prevention of Perinatal Group B Streptococcal (GBS) Disease [2011]

• CDC Group B Strep
  • CDC GBS

• CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
  • Prevention of Perinatal Group B Streptococcal Disease. Revised Guidelines from CDC, 2010 [2010]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Laboratory Practices for Prenatal Group B Streptococcal Screening --- Seven States, 2003 [2004]
  • Diminishing Racial Disparities in Early-Onset Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease --- United States, 2000--2003 [2004]
  • Hospital-Based Policies for Prevention of Perinatal Group B Streptococcal Disease --- United States, 1999 [2000]

• Minnesota Department of Health
  • Group B streptococcus (GBS)

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Prevention of perinatal group B streptococcal disease. Revised guidelines from CDC, 2010 [2010]

Articles in journals

• American Family Physician
  • Prevention of Group B Streptococcal Disease in the Newborn [2005]

• Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine
  • Recent advances in understanding the molecular basis of group B Streptococcus virulence [2008]

• Future Microbiology
  • Understanding the regulation of Group B Streptococcal virulence factors [2009]

• Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
  • Group B streptococcal conjugate vaccine: a timely concept for which the time has come [2008]

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Neonatal & maternal group B streptococcal infections: a comprehensive review [2004]

• Infection and Immunity
  • Interaction of Neonatal Phagocytes with Group B Streptococcus: Recognition and Response [2006]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Preventing perinatal group B streptococcal infection: the jury is still out [2003]

• Pediatric Clinics of North America
  • Group B Streptococcus and Early-Onset Sepsis in the Era of Maternal Prophylaxis [2009]

• Pediatrics
  • Rapid Tests for Group B Streptococcus Colonization in Laboring Women: A Systematic Review [2006]

• Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
  • Screening for group B Streptococcus in pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2011]

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