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Monitoring of High-Risk Areas: Maternity Wards

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Obstetric population is vulnerable to infection in hospitals. Control and monitoring of infection in this population is a major area of concern. Impact of infection does occur on both the pregnant woman and her unborn or just born child. The importance of infection prevention and its impact was rightly described by Semmelwies in a natural experiment long time ago [1]. Since then there has been a major surge in this area to prevent maternity infection.

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  1. Institute of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India

    Bhavna Anand (Consultant) & Kanwal Gujral (Consultant)

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  1. Clinical Microbiology & Immunology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India

    Chand Wattal

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Virginia, USA

    Nancy Khardori

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Anand, B., Gujral, K. (2014). Monitoring of High-Risk Areas: Maternity Wards. In: Wattal, C., Khardori, N. (eds) Hospital Infection Prevention. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1608-7_13

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