Alberto Berardi is professor of Pediatrics at the University of Modena (Italy). He is the head of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University Hospital of Modena (Italy). Since 2003 he has led the GBS Prevention Working Group of Emilia-Romagna (Italy), a research network for the surveillance of invasive neonatal infections (group B Streptococcus and, more recently, E. coli).