Group B streptococcus colonization of Greek pregnant women and neonates: Prevalence, risk factors and serotypes

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 832-838

  Tsolia, M ^a   Psoma, M ^a   Gavrili, S ^a   Petrochilou, V ^a   Michalas, S ^a   Legakis, N ^a   Karpathios, Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Colonization; Group B streptococcus; Maternal; Neonatal; Resistance; Risk factors; Serotypes

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIPARA; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 0141627472     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00662.x     Document Type: Article

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