Synchronous recurrence of group B streptococcal late-onset sepsis in twins

Pediatrics

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Elling, Roland ^a   Hufnagel, Markus ^a   De Zoysa, Aruni ^b   Lander, Fabian ^a,c   Zumstein, Katharina ^a   Krueger, Marcus ^a   Henneke, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Group B streptococcus; Late onset sepsis; S agalactiae; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; BREAST MILK; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SWELLING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYLB GENE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FAMILY COUNSELING; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LABORATORY TEST; LATE ONSET SEPSIS; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SEPSIS; SEROTYPE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SWELLING; SYNCHRONOUS RECURRENT INFECTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MICROBIOLOGY; NECK; PATHOGENICITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRANSMISSION; TWINS; VIRULENCE;

ENTERAL NUTRITION; HUMANS; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MILK, HUMAN; NECK; RECURRENCE; SEPSIS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84899872714     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2013-0426     Document Type: Article

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