Optimizing the rapid and accurate detection of group B strep from antepartum cultures

Infections in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Welch, David F ^a,b   Aldridge, Kenneth E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture surveillance; Neonatal infection; Streptococci, group B

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G;

AGAR MEDIUM; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CULTURE OPTIMIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION PREVENTION; INOCULATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRENATAL SCREENING; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 20044390966     PISSN: 07496524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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