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Outcomes and management of pregnancy and puerperal group A streptococcal infections: A systematic review

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 2023
Introduction Group A streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes) is one of the most lethal bacterial pathogens of humans, with increased risk of progression to septic shock and multiorgan failure in the pregnant population.
Kristin Harris, Leslie K. Proctor, Shiri Shinar, Eleni Philippopoulos, Mark H. Yudin, Kellie E. Murphy   +5 more
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Burden of puerperal sepsis and its associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Archives of Public Health, 2021
Background Puerperal sepsis is a genital tract infection that can occur from amniotic fluid rupture to six weeks after birth. Maternal complication associated with puerperal sepsis includes prolonged hospital stay, septicemia, disseminated intravascular ...
Abenezer Melkie, Enyew Dagnew
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Antibioticoterapia profilática em obstetrícia: comparação entre esquemas Prophylactic antibiotic treatment in obstetrics: comparison of regimens

Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, 1998
Objetivos: avaliar a eficiência de vários esquemas de antibioterapia profilática no parto na prevenção da infecção puerperal. Métodos: segundo a via de parto (vaginal ou abdominal) e conforme a presença ou não de um ou mais fatores de risco para infecção
Heraldo Francisco Costa, Ivete de Ávila, Manuel Maurício Gonçalves   +2 more
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Hempelian and Kuhnian approaches in the philosophy of medicine: the Semmelweis case [PDF]

, 2005
Semmelweis?s investigations of puerperal fever are some of the most interesting in the history of medicine. This paper considers Hempel?s (1966) analysis of the Semmelweis case.
Gillies, DA
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Infecção puerperal em Centro de Parto Normal: ocorrência e fatores predisponentes Infección puerperal y centro de parto normal: ocurrencia y factores predisponentes The puerperal infection in a delivery center: occurrence and predisposing factors

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2005
O Centro de Parto Normal (CPN) proporciona assistência obstétrica centrada nas necessidades da parturiente com base em evidências científicas.
Nilce Xavier de Souza Machado, Neide de Souza Praça   +1 more
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Case report: An unusual presentation of puerperal sepsis

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
Group A Streptococcus (GAS; Streptococcus pyogenes) is a facultative gram-positive coccus, uncommonly colonizing parturient genitalia, where its presence can potentially lead to a life-threatening invasive infection after delivery.
Doron Kabiri, Diana Prus, Roie Alter, Gali Gordon, Shay Porat, Yossef Ezra   +5 more
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Peripartum infections and associated maternal mortality in rural Malawi [PDF]

, 2011
Article approval pendingTo assess associations between maternal mortality and severe morbidity and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, uptake of antiretroviral therapy, obstetric infections, and nonobstetric infections in a rural Malawian ...
Ahmad, Beatrice Mwagomba, Bemelmans, Bryant, Chiphangwi, Denny, Ford, Hogan, Jahn, Jos van Roosmalen, Lapaire, Louis, McIntyre, Mehta, Moodley, Mwagomba, Nathan Ford, Pollack, Semprini, Stefan de Vroome, Thomas van den Akker, van den Akker, Walson, Zachariah   +23 more
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Puerperal infection from the perspective of humanized delivery care at a public maternity hospital Infección puerperal del punto de vista de la atención humanizada al parto en maternidad pública Infecção puerperal sob a ótica da assistência humanizada ao parto em maternidade pública

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2007
This is an epidemiological, prospective and non-concurrent study of the cohort type about puerperal infection from the perspective of humanized delivery care, based on information from 5,178 records of patients who went through the experience of ...
Elisângela Euripedes Resende Guimarães, Tânia Couto Machado Chianca, Adriana Cristina de Oliveira   +2 more
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Carbapenem Resistant Organisms: An Unusual Aetiology for Puerperal Sepsis [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Puerperal infection is a common complication of labour. It occurs universally and is usually responsive to first line antibiotics. However, resistance to first line antibiotics and even second line antibiotics is becoming more wide spread.
Vaibhav Londhe, Reeta Vijayaselvi, V. Balaji, Santosh J. Benjamin, Rani Diana Sahni   +4 more
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Health System Support for Childbirth care in Southern Tanzania: Results from a Health Facility Census. [PDF]

, 2013
Progress towards reaching Millennium Development Goals four (child health) and five (maternal health) is lagging behind, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, despite increasing efforts to scale up high impact interventions.
A Jahn, A Nyamtema, A Nyamtema, A Pembe, AMDD, B Moller, BL Sorensen, C Kurowski, C McCord, C Pereira, C Ronsmans, Carine Ronsmans, Claudia Hanson, D Elbourne, D Urassa, D Urassa, F Manzi, F Manzi, Fatuma Manzi, G Bosse, G Mbaruku, Godfrey Mbaruku, H Kidanto, Hassan Mshinda, I Sorbye, J Armstrong Schellenberg, Jenny Jaribu, JK Rajaratnam, Joanna Schellenberg, JRMA Schellenberg, K Gross, K Makowiecka, L Gilson, M Kayongo, M Kruk, M Mrisho, M Sarker, Marcel Tanner, ME Kruk, ME Kruk, ME Kruk, Ministry of Health & Civil Service Department Tanzania, Ministry of Health (RCHS/NMCP), JHPIEGO, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Ministry of Health-RCHS, GTZ, MY Yakoob, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Tanzania, ICF Macro, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Tanzania, Macro International Inc, OE Olsen, OM Campbell, R Pattinson, RE Black, S Cousens, S Penfold, S Scott, Stata Statistical Software, Suzanne Penfold, United Republic of Tanzania, Ministry of Health - Reproductive and Child Health Section, Werner Maokola, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, AMMD, WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, The World Bank Group, WHO, UNICEF, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, The World Bank, ØE Olsen   +68 more
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