Open AccessEpidemiological Trends of Racial Differences in Early- and Late-onset Group B Streptococcus Disease in Tennessee
Author(s) -
Lubna Hamdan,
Simon Vandekar,
Andrew J. Spieker,
Herdi Rahman,
Danielle Ndi,
Emily S Shekarabi,
Jyotsna Thota,
Danielle A Rankin,
Zaid Haddadin,
Tiffanie Markus,
David M. Aronoff,
William Schaffner,
Jennifer A. Gaddy,
Natasha Halasa
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciaa1511
Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , confidence interval , disease , population , demography , group b , streptococcus , pediatrics , environmental health , sociology , biology , bacteria , genetics
The rates of early-onset group B Streptococcus (GBS) disease (EOGBS) have declined since the implementation of universal screening and intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines but late-onset (LOGBS) rates remain unchanged. Racial differences in GBS disease rates have been previously documented, with Black infants having higher rates of EOGBS and LOGBS, but it is not known if these have persisted. Therefore, we sought to determine the differences in EOGBS and LOGBS disease by race over the past decade in Tennessee.