Investigators have identified novel group A streptococcus surface proteins contributing to female reproductive tract infection that may help develop vaccines for preventing diseases such as childbed ...

Case 1. A.R., the index patient, a 32-year-old woman, was admitted to the Obstetrical Service on March 11, 1964, because of excessive weight gain and hypertension despite outpatient therapy. Five ...

Puerperal sepsis, also known as childbed fever, is the leading cause of maternal deaths. In this novel study in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier, scientists report on the ...

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Of puerperal (childbed) fever caused by Streptococcus haemolyticus more than 3,000 U. S. women die every year. Although sulfanilamide has miraculously cured thousands of puerperal infections, ...

THE prevention of puerperal fever is one of the great victories of medicine. It is well recognized that the clear writing of Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 and the courageous exhortations of Semmelweis 2 ...

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