Early-onset neonatal sepsis (EOS) remains a feared cause of severe illness and death among infants of all birthweights and gestational ages, with particular impact among preterm infants. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigators have studied the changing epidemiology of invasive EOS for several decades. The Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs) network, a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state health departments, and universities, was established in 1995 to address emerging infectious diseases of public health importance, including infections due to major neonatal pathogens.1,2 ABCs data are remarkable because of the geographic distribution and size of the population-based network, laboratory-based identification of cases, linked epidemiologic and laboratory data, and surveillance over many years. In this issue of Pediatrics, Schrag and colleagues3 present ABCs data on the epidemiology of early-onset neonatal sepsis collected over a recent 10-year period, with special attention to group...
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December 01 2016
Early-Onset Neonatal Sepsis: A Continuing Problem in Need of Novel Prevention Strategies
Barbara J. Stoll, MD
H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professor in the Medical Sciences and Dean, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
Address correspondence to Barbara J. Stoll, MD, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 6431 Fannin St, MSB G.150, Houston, TX 77030. E-mail: barbara.j.stoll@uth.tmc.edu
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Address correspondence to Barbara J. Stoll, MD, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 6431 Fannin St, MSB G.150, Houston, TX 77030. E-mail: barbara.j.stoll@uth.tmc.edu
POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The author has indicated she has no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: The author has indicated she has no financial relationships relative to this article to disclose.
Pediatrics (2016) 138 (6): e20163038.
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Barbara J. Stoll; Early-Onset Neonatal Sepsis: A Continuing Problem in Need of Novel Prevention Strategies. Pediatrics December 2016; 138 (6): e20163038. 10.1542/peds.2016-3038
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