Group B streptococci in milk and late neonatal infections: An analysis of cases in the literature

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Filleron, Anne ^a   Lombard, F ^a   Jacquot, A ^a   Jumas Bilak, E ^a   Rodiere M ^a   Cambonie, G ^a   Marchandin, H ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE INFECTION; BREAST MILK; CESAREAN SECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LATE ONSET NEONATAL INFECTION; MASTITIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MILK, HUMAN; PREVALENCE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 84890427307     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-304362     Document Type: Article

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