Recurrent late-onset group B streptococcus sepsis in a preterm infant acquired by expressed breastmilk transmission: A case report

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 134-136

  Jawa, Gaurav ^a   Hussain, Zafar ^b   Da Silva, Orlando ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BREAST MILK EXPRESSION; CASE REPORT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STEROID THERAPY;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; AMPICILLIN; BACTEREMIA; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MASTITIS; MILK, HUMAN; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; RECURRENCE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873337997     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: 15568342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2012.0016     Document Type: Article

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