Value of collaborative investigation by hospital infection control, public health services and a national reference laboratory during an increase in puerperal sepsis [PDF]
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection ControlBackground In a Dutch tertiary care hospital, two cases of puerperal sepsis were diagnosed within 16 days in June-July 2022. The subsequent outbreak investigation emphasizes the value of collaboration between hospital infection control, regional public ...
Irene V. Hoogendijk +10 more
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Determinants of puerperal sepsis among postpartum women at a tertiary care hospital in Ethiopia: an unmatched case-control study [PDF]
Contraception and Reproductive MedicineBackground Puerperal sepsis, is a significant factor in maternal morbidity and mortality, especially in regions with lower income levels where maternal mortality rates are highest. However, it can be largely avoided if detected in time.
Keraj Seboka +5 more
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Determinants of puerperal sepsis among post partum women at public hospitals in west SHOA zone Oromia regional STATE, Ethiopia (institution BASEDCASE control study) [PDF]
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019 Background Puerperal sepsis is an infection of the genital tract, which occurs from rupture of amniotic sacs and within 42ndday after delivery. It happens mainly after discharge in the 1st 24 h of parturition.
Getu Alemu Demisse +4 more
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Laboratory confirmed puerperal sepsis in a national referral hospital in Tanzania: etiological agents and their susceptibility to commonly prescribed antibiotics [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background In most developing countries, puerperal sepsis is treated empirically with broad spectrum antibiotics due to lack of resources for culture and antibiotics susceptibility testing.
Raymond Kiponza +3 more
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Severe Puerperal Sepsis-A Simmering Menace [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017 Introduction: Even decades after the development of effective low-cost antibiotics, sepsis persists as the foremost cause of preventable maternal death worldwide.
Sheeba Marwah +4 more
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Late puerperal sepsis, case report and literature review
Case Reports, 2016 A case of extremely rare puerperal sepsis is presented in this paper. Postpartum infection is an entity given in between 0.1% and 10% of postpartum patients and has a mortality rate ranging from 2% to 11%.
Juan Pablo López, Edith Ángel-Müller
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Scrub typhus masquerading as HELLP syndrome and puerperal sepsis in an asymptomatic malaria patient. [PDF]
Qatar Med J, 2016 Karim HM +4 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 ...
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Puerperal sepsis in a rural hospital in Sudan. [PDF]
Mater Sociomed, 2013 Ahmed MI, Alsammani MA, Babiker RA.
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Puerperal sepsis, the leading cause of maternal deaths at a Tertiary University Teaching Hospital in Uganda [PDF]
, 2016 Joseph Ngonzi +8 more
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