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Outbreak of Late-onset Group B Streptococcal Infections in Healthy Newborn Infants after Discharge from a Maternity Hospital: A Case Report

During a four-week period, four healthy term newborn infants born at a regional maternity hospital in Korea developed late-onset neonatal group B Streptococcus (GBS) infections, after being discharged from the same nursery. More than 10 days after their discharge, all of the infants developed fever,...

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Autores principales: Kim, Hyung Jin, Kim, Soo Young, Seo, Won Hee, Choi, Byung Min, Yoo, Young, Lee, Kee Hyoung, Eun, Baik Lin, Kim, Hai Joong
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Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734017/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16614527
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2006.21.2.347
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author Kim, Hyung Jin
Kim, Soo Young
Seo, Won Hee
Choi, Byung Min
Yoo, Young
Lee, Kee Hyoung
Eun, Baik Lin
Kim, Hai Joong
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Kim, Soo Young
Seo, Won Hee
Choi, Byung Min
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description During a four-week period, four healthy term newborn infants born at a regional maternity hospital in Korea developed late-onset neonatal group B Streptococcus (GBS) infections, after being discharged from the same nursery. More than 10 days after their discharge, all of the infants developed fever, lethargy, and poor feeding behavior, and were subsequently admitted to the Korea University Medical Center, Ansan Hospital. GBS was isolated from the blood cultures of three babies; furthermore, GBS was isolated from 2 cerebral spinal fluid cultures. Three babies had meningitis, and GBS was isolated from their cerebral spinal fluid cultures. This outbreak was believed to reflect delayed infection after early colonization, originating from nosocomial sources within the hospital environment. This report underlines the necessity for Korean obstetricians and pediatricians to be aware of the risk of nosocomial transmissions of GBS infection in the delivery room and/or the nursery.
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spelling pubmed-27340172009-08-31 Outbreak of Late-onset Group B Streptococcal Infections in Healthy Newborn Infants after Discharge from a Maternity Hospital: A Case Report Kim, Hyung Jin Kim, Soo Young Seo, Won Hee Choi, Byung Min Yoo, Young Lee, Kee Hyoung Eun, Baik Lin Kim, Hai Joong J Korean Med Sci Case Report During a four-week period, four healthy term newborn infants born at a regional maternity hospital in Korea developed late-onset neonatal group B Streptococcus (GBS) infections, after being discharged from the same nursery. More than 10 days after their discharge, all of the infants developed fever, lethargy, and poor feeding behavior, and were subsequently admitted to the Korea University Medical Center, Ansan Hospital. GBS was isolated from the blood cultures of three babies; furthermore, GBS was isolated from 2 cerebral spinal fluid cultures. Three babies had meningitis, and GBS was isolated from their cerebral spinal fluid cultures. This outbreak was believed to reflect delayed infection after early colonization, originating from nosocomial sources within the hospital environment. This report underlines the necessity for Korean obstetricians and pediatricians to be aware of the risk of nosocomial transmissions of GBS infection in the delivery room and/or the nursery. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2006-04 2006-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2734017/ /pubmed/16614527 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2006.21.2.347 Text en Copyright © 2006 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kim, Hyung Jin
Kim, Soo Young
Seo, Won Hee
Choi, Byung Min
Yoo, Young
Lee, Kee Hyoung
Eun, Baik Lin
Kim, Hai Joong
Outbreak of Late-onset Group B Streptococcal Infections in Healthy Newborn Infants after Discharge from a Maternity Hospital: A Case Report
title Outbreak of Late-onset Group B Streptococcal Infections in Healthy Newborn Infants after Discharge from a Maternity Hospital: A Case Report
title_full Outbreak of Late-onset Group B Streptococcal Infections in Healthy Newborn Infants after Discharge from a Maternity Hospital: A Case Report
title_fullStr Outbreak of Late-onset Group B Streptococcal Infections in Healthy Newborn Infants after Discharge from a Maternity Hospital: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Outbreak of Late-onset Group B Streptococcal Infections in Healthy Newborn Infants after Discharge from a Maternity Hospital: A Case Report
title_short Outbreak of Late-onset Group B Streptococcal Infections in Healthy Newborn Infants after Discharge from a Maternity Hospital: A Case Report
title_sort outbreak of late-onset group b streptococcal infections in healthy newborn infants after discharge from a maternity hospital: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734017/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16614527
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2006.21.2.347
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