Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Maternal and neonatal infections

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Candidiasis in pregnancy and newborn

Australia, New Zealand

• Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
  • Australasian guidelines for antifungal therapy in neonates and children with proven, probable and suspected invasive fungal infections [2007]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Topical treatment for vaginal candidiasis (thrush) in pregnancy
  • Systemic antifungal drugs for invasive fungal infection in preterm infants
  • Prophylactic oral/topical non-absorbed antifungal agents to prevent invasive fungal infection in very low birth weight infants
  • Patient isolation measures for infants with candida colonization or infection for preventing or reducing transmission of candida in neonatal units

Articles in journals

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Vaginal yeast infections during pregnancy [2009]

• Clinics in Perinatology
  • The Use of Antifungal Therapy in Neonatal Intensive Care [2012]

• Expert Opinion on Drug Safety
  • Safety of Micafungin in Infants: Insights into Optimal Dosing [2011]

• Pediatrics
  • Neonatal Candidemia and End-Organ Damage: A Critical Appraisal of the Literature Using Meta-analytic Techniques [2003]

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• Guidelines
  • Neonatal infections
  • Infections in pregnancy
  • Candidiasis