Group A streptococcal infection
Rationale and design of the African group A streptococcal infection registry: the AFROStrep study
... Introduction: Group A β -haemolytic Streptococcus (GAS), a Gram-positive bacterium, also known as Streptococcus pyogenes, causes pyoderma, pharyngitis and invasive ...African group A streptococcal ...
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Neonatal group B B haemolytic streptococcal infection in Kuala Lumpur
... Neonatal group B B haemolytic streptococcal infection in Kuala Lumpur Med J Malaysia Vol 3S No 2 December 1980 NEONATAl GROUP B B HAEMOlYTIC STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION IN KUALA lUMPUR ALl AZMAN MINHAJ FA[.] ...
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Group B Streptococcal Infection in Infancy: A Case Report and Review
... Group B Streptococcal Infection in Infancy: A Case Report and Review. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/38/4/659 the World Wide Web at:[r] ...
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Streptococcus pyogenes-purpura fulminans as an invasive form of group A streptococcal infection
... The group A β-hemolytic Strep- tococcus (GAS) is associated with Sydenham’s chorea and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome ...comprise streptococcal toxic shock ...
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Commentary on Surfactant Treatment of Neonates With Respiratory Failure and Group B Streptococcal Infection
... were treated with surfactant isolated from animal lungs, and the processing required for clinical use removes the host defense factors. The hydrophobic surfactant proteins SP-B and SP-C may have some host defense ...
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Prevention of neonatal group B streptococcal infection
... GBS infection: universal screening of all pregnant women for GBS colonization along with intrapartum antibiotics for all women with positive results; universal GBS screening of all pregnant women and intrapartum ...
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GM CSF–deficient mice are susceptible to pulmonary group B streptococcal infection
... Preparation of bacteria. A stock culture GBS was obtained from a clinical isolate from a newborn infant with systemic infection. Bacteria were suspended in sterile PBS containing 20% glycerol and frozen in ...
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Complement Activation and Group B Streptococcal Infection in the Newborn: Similarities to Endotoxin Shock
... Twin Si and baby MC, both of whom died with group B streptococcal sepsis, had depressions of C4, C3, and factor B levels, suggesting that both classical and alternative complement pathwa[r] ...
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CONCURRENT EPIDEMICS OF STAPHLOCOCCUS AUREUS AND GROUP A STEPTOCOCCUS DISEASE IN A NEWBORN NURSERY—CONTROL WITH PENICILLIN G AND HEXACHLOROPHENE BATHING
... Schaberg: We have had cultural evidence of the presence of Group A streptococcal infection in infants on hexachlorophene bathing, and another Boston hospital had a nursery epidemic of Gr[r] ...
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Significance of Radiographic Findings in Early-Onset Group B Streptococcal Infection
... A comparison of the incidence of radiographic HMD in infants with GBS and in control neonates who weighed from 1,000 to 1,500 g revealed. ---___[r] ...
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Surfactant Treatment of Neonates With Respiratory Failure and Group B Streptococcal Infection
... We were able to demonstrate a significant im- provement in gas exchange in GBS infected neonates after surfactant treatment. The design of the study did not allow the conclusion that this improvement was associated with ...
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Immunofluorescence in Group B Streptococcal Infection and Idiopathic Respiratory Distress Syndrome
... The clinical and pathologic similarities be- tween idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS) and early-onset group B streptococcal (CBS) sepsis with pneumonia are stniking.’1 In bo[r] ...
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Epidemiology of early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal infection
... this group of women, how would it affect neonatal GBS outcomes? To answer this question, we must first determine the neonatal trans- mission rate among GBS carriers receiving no prophy- lactic ...
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EFFECT OF CORTISONE ON ACUTE STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS AND POST STREPTOCOCCAL COMPLICATIONS
... None of the seven patients showed bacteriological evidence of an intervening streptococcal infection, although one patient from the control group interval 13 days entered the hospital wi[r] ...
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STUDIES OF THE CARRIER STATE FOLLOWING INFECTION WITH GROUP A STREPTOCOCCI II INFECTIVITY OF STREPTOCOCCI ISOLATED DURING ACUTE PHARYNGITIS AND DURING THE CARRIER STATE
... The present study was designed to test the infectivity of group A streptococci isolated from the human oropharynx during the acute streptococcal infection and during the carrier state.. [r] ...
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Neurological Sequelae of Group B Streptococcal Neonatal Infection
... Eighteen survivors from a series of 44 infants with neonatal group B streptococcal infection were examined for neurological sequelae. Four of the 18 were found to have some neurological [r] ...
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Varicella Complicated by Group A Streptococcal Sepsis and Osteonecrosis
... increase in the incidence of invasive GABHS infec- tion and reports that 50% of new cases at Boston Childrens Hospital in 1993 were associated with varicella infection. GABHS appears to have en- hanced virulence ...
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HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION IN CHILDHOOD
... The antibody response became progressively more mature with each and the illness changed from the typical indolent infantile type to that usually seen in older children. She was unusuall[r] ...
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SEROLOGIC RESPONSE TO STREPTOCOCCAL HEMOLYSIN AND HYALURONIDASE IN STREPTOCOCCAL AND RHEUMATIC INFECTION
... It can be seen in Table I that the geometric mean antibody titer to streptococcal hyaluronidase and hemolysin found in acute rheumatic fever is higher for each year studied than that fou[r] ...
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GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS IN NEWBORN NURSERIES
... Control of the first outbreak was not achieved until all infants with positive cultures were treated with penicillin and all exposed infants received prophylactic penicillin until a comp[r] ...
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