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Images in neonatal medicine
Late-onset group B streptococcal cellulitis
  1. Tobias Strunk1,2,
  2. David Burgner3,4
  1. 1 Neonatal Clinical Care Unit, King Edward Memorial Hospital
  2. 2 Centre for Neonatal Research and Education, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  3. 3 Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
  4. 4 Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Tobias Strunk, Neonatal Clinical Care Unit, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Centre for Neonatal Research and Education, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, The University of Western Australia, 374 Bagot Road, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia; tobias.strunk{at}health.wa.gov.au or tobiasstrunk{at}yahoo.de

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-307388

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    A 33-week gestational age female infant was delivered by non-elective caesarean section for intrauterine growth restriction (birth weight 1130 g). She received continuous positive airway pressure support for 72 h and empiric penicillin and gentamicin for 48 h. Initial blood culture, full blood count and C reactive protein were normal. The …

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    • Contributors TS cared for the patient. TS and DB wrote the case report.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.