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Giuseppe Presta, Enrico Rosati, Raffaella Giannuzzi, Antonio Del Vecchio, Antonia Lozupone, Mario Criscuolo, Alberto Verrotti, Giuseppe Latini, Claudio De Felice

Prolonged fetal bradycardia as the presenting clinical sign in Streptococcus agalactiae chorioamnionitis

Keywords: Birth asphyxia, Chorioamnionitis, Fetal heart rate, Status epilepticus, Streptococcus agalactiae

Group B Streptococcus remains a leading infectious cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. We report a case of a 37 weeks’ gestation infant with severe birth asphyxia, status epilepticus and GBS chorioamnionitis, in which a prolonged fetal bradycardia was the only prenatal clinical sign.

Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1619-3997
Volume: 32, 11/2004
Pages: 535 - 537

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