Abstract
Methods The information I selected for this article was chosen on the basis of a poll I made of the 12 practitioners in maternal fetal medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and from conversations with colleagues from around the United States. View larger version: In this window In a new window Fig 1. Incidence of early onset neonatal infection with group B streptococci. This decreased 60% between 1993, when preventive antibiotic treatment was advocated, and 1998 in surveillance areas of more than 12 million births. (Adapted from Schrag et al1)