Increased Use of Maternal Intra-Partum Antibiotics is Not Associated with a Reduction in Morbidity of Early-Onset GBS (GBS) Infections: But It Does Expose a Lot More Women to Ampicillin |[dagger]| 1471

Maternal chemoprophylaxis with intra-partum antibiotics (IPA), has been increasingly enouraged over the past several years in an attempt to reduce the incidence of GBS infections. We wondered what impact these exhortations had on the incidence, morbidity, and mortality of GBS infections in our institution.