Reduced incidence of neonatal early‐onset group B streptococcal infection after promulgation of guidelines for risk‐based intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis in Sweden: analysis of a national population‐based cohort

• Published in: Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica Vol. 96; no. 12; pp. 1475 - 1483
• Main Authors: Håkansson, Stellan, Lilja, Maria, Jacobsson, Bo, Källén, Karin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.12.2017
• Subjects: Antibiotic Prophylaxis; Antibiotics; Childbirth & labor; Clinical Medicine; Early-onset; Female; Group B streptococcus; Health risk assessment; Health risks; Humans; Incidence; Infant, Newborn; Infections; Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical - prevention & control; Infectious Medicine; Infektionsmedicin; Klinisk medicin; Medical and Health Sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Neonatal; Newborn babies; Pediatrics; Pediatrik; Pneumonia; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Complications, Infectious - drug therapy; Pregnancy Complications, Infectious - epidemiology; Risk-based; Sepsis; Streptococcal infection; Streptococcal Infections - drug therapy; Streptococcal Infections - epidemiology; Streptococcus infections; Sweden - epidemiology; Sweden; neonatal; risk-based; antibiotic prophylaxis; early-onset; streptococcal infection; Group B streptococcus

Introduction This study aimed to investigate the incidence of neonatal early‐onset group B streptococcal (GBS) infection in Sweden after promulgation of guidelines (2008) for risk factor‐based intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis, and evaluate the presence of risk factors and obstetric management in m...