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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-8-12
pubmed:abstractText
All babies born in a University maternity unit over a period of four months had bacteriological swabs taken in the labour ward. This was to see whether a list of criteria in the history for bacterial infection of the newborn could be relied on. The criteria were: premature rupture of the membranes (before labour had started at all), rupture of the membranes for more than 12 hours, stained liquor, prematurity, fetal tachycardia of more than 160 per minute or abnormal rhythm of the heartbeat, an Apgar score of less than 7 after 1 minute, maternal genital or urinary tract infection (not cured) in month before delivery, maternal temperature above 38 degrees C in labour. During the study there were: 570 live births of which 222 (39%) were at risk of infection according to the above list of criteria, 35 had bacterial colonies present and 4 were definitely infected. More cultures from the placenta, the gastric fluid and the skin came back positive when there was a recognised risk of infection. Both the clinical and bacteriological results show that the risk was 5.24 of colonisation when the risk of infection had been recognised. These prospective results when checked against the retrospective results already obtained in the same department, suggest that this kind of screening for infection is worthwhile without being too expensive, and one can rely on the history to screen for neonatal bacterial infection.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0368-2315
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
393-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Apgar Score, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Bacterial Infections, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Female, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Fetal Distress, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Fetal Membranes, Premature Rupture, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-France, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Heart Rate, Fetal, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Hospitals, University, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Mass Screening, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Medical History Taking, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Obstetric Labor, Premature, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Pregnancy Complications, Infectious, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Prospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Reproducibility of Results, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Risk Factors, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Tachycardia, pubmed-meshheading:1624725-Urinary Tract Infections
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
[Bacterial infection of the newborn by maternal fetal contamination: one can depend on the anamnesis].
pubmed:affiliation
Département de Pédiatrie Médicale, Centre de Pédiatrie Gatien-de-Clocheville, Tours.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract