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Objective: To determine the demographic and clinical variables characteristic of non-epidemic intrapartum or puerperal group A streptococcal (GAS) infection. Methods: The records of 47 patients diagnosed with intrapartum or puerperal GAS infection over a 6 1 ⁄2 year period at Hadassah-University Hospital-Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem were reviewed. Data regarding 25,811 women, the general population of women that delivered during that period, were obtained from their computerized medical records. Frequency distributions, t-test, chi-square, and Spearman's Rank Correlation were used, as appropriate, to analyze and compare demographic and clinical variables associated with development of GAS infection, its clinical course and subsequent development of septic shock. Results: Mean age of mothers with GAS infection was higher than that of our general pregnant population (30.4 versus 27.4 years, P = 0.0019), and a higher proportion of GAS infected patients (30% versus 12%, P < 0.005) experienced PROM. Thirty-one (66%) women had fever as their sole presenting symptom, eight (17%) had fever and abdominal pain, seven (15%) had fever and abnormal vaginal bleeding, and one patient (2%) presented with

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Author

Eyal Y. Anteby; Simcha Yagel; Josef Hanoch; Mervyn Shapiro; Allon E. Moses

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation; Hindawi Limited; New York; Carnforth: Parthenon Publishing; [New York N.Y.]: Wiley-Liss Inc.; London: Hindawi; Wiley (ISSN 1064-7449)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)