Maximizing neonatal early onset group B streptococcal disease prevention with universal culture screening at 35 to 37 weeks gestation: A comparison of GBS detection rates between LIM broth and CNA culture media

Family Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 411-413

  Orsello, Christopher ^a   Dommermuth, Ronald ^b  

^a Naval Hospital Bremerton   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLISTIN; NALIDIXIC ACID;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ONSET AGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RECTUM; SCREENING TEST; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VAGINA;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0038282813     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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