Gaurav Kwatra, Alane Izu, Clare Cutland, Godwin Akaba et al.
BACKGROUND: Rectovaginal group B Streptococcus (GBS) colonisation in pregnant individuals at the time of labour is a major risk factor for invasive GBS disease by age 7 days (early-onset disease). We aimed to investigate the prevalence of rectovaginal GBS colonisation at the time of labour among pre...
Babatunde Abidoye, Robert Mendelsohn, Sultan Ahmed, SELIM AMANULLAH et al.
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam each conducted a Ricardian analysis of crop net revenue (NR) in their country. The countries defined seasons slightly differently depending on their monsoon and dry periods. They also sometimes included slightly different variables in their regressions. T...
André P. Schmidt, Norma Sueli Pinheiro Módolo, Célio Gomes de Amorim, Cláudia Marquez Simões et al.
In a previous editorial approximately two years ago, we wrote about how the COVID-19 pandemic was unfolding worldwide and significantly impacting the routine of anesthesiologists around the world. In the beginning of 2020, little was known about the potential consequences of the widespread dissemina...
Carine Bokop, Nisha Dhar, Alane Izu, Musa Mohammed Ali et al.
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the transplacental acquisition of measles immunoglobulin (Ig)G in newborns at delivery in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, and South Africa. METHODS: Archived cord serum, from a multicenter study on Group B Streptococcus, were tested f...
Carine Bokop, Nisha Dhar, Alane Izu, Jayendrie Thaver-Kleitman et al.
BACKGROUND Newborns infected with Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) are at risk of chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma. OBJECTIVES This study investigated the prevalence of HBV infection among pregnant women and cord blood Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positivity of their newborns in Bang...
Eric A. F. Simões, Cissy B. Kartasasmita
Reply: We thank Cooper et al for their comments. We concur with the authors that, in our study, the rate of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) acute lower respiratory tract infection (LRI) in infants <6 months of age is not low (50/1000 child years)1 and also agree that when examined, globally, the r...