Group B Streptococcal Meningitis Has Long-Term Effects On Children’s Developmental Outcomes

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Group B Streptococcal Meningitis Has Long-Term Effects On Children’s Developmental Outcomes

ScienceDaily — Parents of infants who survive bacterial meningitis caused by group B Streptococcus might have to live with the effects of the disease on their children long after they’re discharged from the hospital. A new study in the journal Pediatrics finds that even though mortality rates of children infected with GBS meningitis have decreased in the past 25 years, just under half of children who survive the disease will suffer impairment as a result of the disease. Read article

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