Maternal or neonatal infection: association with neonatal encephalopathy outcomes.

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/pr.2014.

Maternal or neonatal infection: association with neonatal encephalopathy outcomes.

Background: Perinatal infection may potentiate brain injury among children born preterm. The objective of this study was to examine whether maternal and/or neonatal infection are associated with adverse outcomes among term neonates with encephalopathy.

Methods: This study is a cohort study of 258 term newborns with encephalopathy whose clinical records were examined for signs of maternal infection (chorioamnionitis) and infant infection (sepsis).