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The incidence of hospitalizations of the offspring up to the age of 18 years, due to various infectious conditions, was compared between pregnancies complicated by intrapartum fever and those that were not. A Kaplan\u2013Meier survival curve was used to assess cumulative hospitalization incidence. A Cox proportional hazards model was used to control for confounders. Overall, 538 of the 356,356 included pregnancies were complicated with fever. A higher rate of pediatric hospitalizations due to various infectious conditions was found among the exposed group, which was significant for viral, fungal and ENT infections (p &lt; 0.05 for all). The total number of infectious-related hospitalizations was significantly higher (30.1% vs. 24.1%; OR = 1.36; p = 0.001), as was the cumulative incidence of hospitalizations. This association remained significant after controlling for confounders using a Cox proportional hazards model (adjusted HR = 1.21; 95% CI 1.04\u20131.41, p = 0.016). 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