Rapid detection of group B streptococci in pregnant women at delivery

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 343, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 175-179

  Bergeron, Michel G ^a,c   Ke, Danbing ^a   Menard, Christian ^a   Picard, François J ^a   Gagnon, Martin ^a   Bernier, Marthe ^a   Ouellette, Marc ^a   Roy, Paul H ^b   Marcoux, Sylvie ^c   Fraser, William D ^c  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SCREENING TEST; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VAGINA SECRETION;

ANAL CANAL; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TIME FACTORS; VAGINA;

EID: 0034691821     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200007203430303     Document Type: Article

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