Group B streptococcal screening, intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis, and neonatal early-onset infection rates in an Australian local health district: 2006-2016

• Kathryn Braye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Braye, Maralyn Foureur, Elise Putt, John Ferguson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Kathryn.t.braye@student.uts.edu.au

  Affiliations Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Hunter New England Health, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0309-2778

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• Maralyn Foureur ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Braye, Maralyn Foureur, Elise Putt, John Ferguson

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Hunter New England Health, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

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• Koert de Waal ,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Neonatology, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

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• Mark Jones ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

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• Elise Putt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Braye, Maralyn Foureur, Elise Putt, John Ferguson

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hunter New England Health, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

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• John Ferguson

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Braye, Maralyn Foureur, Elise Putt, John Ferguson

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Hunter New England Health, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, New South Wales Health Pathology, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

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