Society guideline links: Group B streptococcal infection in pregnant people and neonates

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International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Recommendation on screening of pregnant women for intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis for the prevention of early onset group B streptococcus disease in newborns (2024)

Canada

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Clinical practice guideline for the management of group B streptococcal bacteriuria in pregnancy (reaffirmed 2018)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline for the prevention of early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal disease (reaffirmed 2018)

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement for the management of term infants at increased risk for early onset bacterial sepsis (2017)

United States

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book – Group B streptococcal infections (2024)

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on the prevention of group B streptococcal early-onset disease in newborns (2020, reaffirmed 2022)

●American Society for Microbiology (ASM): Guidelines for the detection and identification of group B Streptococcus (2020, updated 2021)

●AAP: Clinical report for the management of infants at risk for group B streptococcal disease (2019)

●AAP: Clinical report for the management of neonates born at ≤34 6/7 weeks' gestation with suspected or proven early-onset bacterial sepsis (2018)

●AAP: Clinical report for the management of neonates born at ≥35 0/7 weeks' gestation with suspected or proven early-onset bacterial sepsis (2018)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on neonatal infection – Antibiotics for prevention and treatment (2021, updated 2024)

●NICE: Quality standard on neonatal infection (2014, updated 2024)

●Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG): Green-top guideline for the identification and management of maternal sepsis during and following pregnancy, second edition (2024)

●RCOG: Green-top guideline for the prevention of early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal disease, third edition (2017)

Australia–New Zealand

●Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG): Green-top guideline on identification and management of maternal sepsis during and following pregnancy (2024)

●Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (SOMANZ): Position statement for the investigation and management of sepsis in pregnancy (2023)

●Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID): Management of perinatal infections, 3rd edition (2022)

●Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG): Statement on maternal group B streptococcus in pregnancy – Screening and management (2019)

●RCOG: Green-top guideline on prevention of early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal disease (2017)