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Group B streptococcal infections

 

Australia

• NSW Ministry of Health
  • Maternal Group B Streptococcus (GBS) and minimisation of neonatal early-onset GBS sepsis [2017]

Cochrane

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

Developing countries

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Variation in Reported Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease Incidence in Developing Countries [2012]

India

• Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
  • Prevention of perinatal group B streptococcal infections: A review with an Indian perspective [2014]

International

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Group B Streptococcal Disease Worldwide for Pregnant Women, Stillbirths, and Children: Why, What, and How to Undertake Estimates? [2017]

• Vaccine
  • WHO consultation on group B Streptococcus vaccine development: Report from a meeting held on 27–28 April 2016 [2016]

Ireland

• Health Protection Surveillance Centre
  • Group B Streptococcal Disease

Italy

• Italian Journal of Pediatrics
  • Strategies for preventing group B streptococcal infections in newborns: a nation-wide survey of Italian policies [2017]

Japan

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Early-onset and late-onset group B streptococcal disease in Japan: a nationwide surveillance study, 2004–2010 [2013]

Low and middle-income countries

• Vaccine
  • Ethical considerations for designing GBS maternal vaccine efficacy trials in low-middle income countries [2015]

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]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Barriers and facilitators related to the uptake of four strategies to prevent neonatal early-onset group B haemolytic streptococcus disease: a qualitative study [2017]
  • Implementation of a cost-effective strategy to prevent neonatal early-onset group B haemolytic streptococcus disease in the Netherlands [2013]

Portugal

• EuroSurveillance
  • Epidemiological surveillance of colonising group B Streptococcus epidemiology in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley regions, Portugal (2005 to 2012): emergence of a new epidemic type IV/clonal complex 17 clone [2014]

South Africa

• BMC Research Notes
  • Antibiotic resistance of Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from pregnant women in Garankuwa, South Africa [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in South Africa: Importance of Surveillance Methodology [2016]

United Kingdom

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Prevention of early-onset Group B Streptococcal disease – the Northern Ireland experience [2014]

• Public Health England
  • SMI B 58: detection of carriage of group B streptococci
  • Group B streptococcus infection: enriched culture medium test
  • Detection of carriage of group B streptococci

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Group B Streptococcal Disease, Early-onset [2017]

• UK National Screening Committee
  • Group B Streptococcus screening in pregnancy

United States of America

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Prevention of Early-Onset Group B Streptococcal Disease in Newborns [2011]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Prevention of Perinatal Group B Streptococcal Disease. Revised Guidelines from CDC, 2010 [2010]
  • Group B Strep

• Clinics in Perinatology
  • Antibiotic Stewardship: Reassessment of Guidelines for Management of Neonatal Sepsis [2014]

• Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Multicenter Clinical Evaluation of the Xpert GBS LB Assay for Detection of Group B Streptococcus in Prenatal Screening Specimens [2014]

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

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Chorioamnionitis and Culture-Confirmed Early-onset Neonatal Infections [2015]

• Pediatrics
  • 2010 Perinatal GBS Prevention Guideline and Resource Utilization [2014]

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