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. 2020 Jul 29;89(6):1541–1548. doi: 10.1038/s41390-020-1092-2

Table 3.

One-year mortality among infants with and without invasive Group B Streptococcal infection, in the total population and among infants born preterm (i.e., before gestational week 37) or at term (gestational week 37 or later)a.

One-year mortality OR (95% CI)
Died Survived
N (%)b N (%)b
All children
  GBS infection 44 (7.0) 581 (93.0) 24.5 (18.0–33.3)
  No GBS infection 3103 (0.3) 1,003,518 (99.7) 1.0 (ref.)
Premature
  GBS infection 27 (13.9) 167 (86.1) 6.5 (4.3–9.8)
  No GBS infection 1597 (2.4) 64,366 (97.6) 1.0 (ref.)
Term
  GBS infection 17 (4.1) 400 (95.9) 28.6 (17.6–46.6)
  No GBS infection 1361 (0.1) 917,058 (99.9) 1.0 (ref.)

GBS Group B Streptococcus.

aInformation on gestational age was missing in 14 (2.2%) cases with and 22,239 (2.2%) cases without GBS infection.

bPercentages are shown in rows.