Increasing the detection rate of Group B Streptococcal carriers by non-selective cervico-vaginal culture accompanied with the selective vagino-anorectal one

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-71

  Cibali Açikgöz, Ziyd ^a   Turhan, Nilgün Öztürk ^a   Gamberzade, Şöhret ^a   Göçer, Safiye ^a  

^a FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

GBS screening; GBS screening media; Group B Streptococcus

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOCULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0037724178     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(02)00555-2     Document Type: Article

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