Africa - Bangladesh, Pakistan - Denmark - Ethiopia - International - Ireland - Low and middle income countries - Suriname - Thailand - United Kingdom - United States - WHO - {Related topics}

Africa

• Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care
  • Self-Care Practices for Puerperal Sepsis Prevention and Associated Factors Among Postnatal Women in Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2026]

Bangladesh, Pakistan

• Journal of Global Health
  • Validation of community health worker identification of maternal puerperal sepsis using a clinical diagnostic algorithm in Bangladesh and Pakistan [2021]

Denmark

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Maternal postpartum infection risk following induction of labor: A Danish national cohort study [2025]

• BMJ Open
  • Postpartum urinary tract infection by mode of delivery: a Danish nationwide cohort study [2018]

Ethiopia

• Archives of Public Health
  • Burden of puerperal sepsis and its associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

• European Journal of Medical Research
  • Burden and determinants of puerperal sepsis in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

International

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Antibiotic regimens for postpartum endometritis [2015]

• International Society for Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Genital Tract GAS Infection ISIDOG Guidelines [2021]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Incidence of maternal peripartum infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

• Vaccine
  • Postpartum endometritis and infection following incomplete or complete abortion: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of maternal immunization safety data [2019]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Postpartum Endometritis

Low and middle income countries

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Intrapartum and postpartum antibiotic use in seven low- and middle-income countries: Findings from the A-PLUS trial [2025]

• Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
  • Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance Among Women with Post-Partum Infections in Low-Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Effect of Puerperal Infections on Early Neonatal Mortality: A Secondary Analysis of Six Demographic and Health Surveys [2017]

Suriname

• PLoS ONE
  • The golden hour of sepsis: An in-depth analysis of sepsis-related maternal mortality in middle-income country Suriname [2018]

Thailand

• Frontiers in Medicine
  • Incidence of postpartum infections and outcomes associated with antibiotic prophylaxis after normal vaginal birth [2022]

United Kingdom

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Bacterial Sepsis following Pregnancy [2012]

United States

• StatPearls
  • Postpartum Infection

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Managing puerperal sepsis [2008]

{Related topics}

• Topic
  • Postpartum, postnatal care
  • Infections in pregnancy