Sensitivities of antigen detection and PCR assays greatly increased compared to that of the standard culture method for screening for group B streptococcus carriage in pregnant women

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 725-728

  Rallu, Fabien ^a   Barriga, Peter ^a   Scrivo, Carole ^a   Martel Laferrière, Valéric ^a   Laferrière, Céline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLISTIN; NALIDIXIC ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CFB GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCPB GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASS SCREENING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

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

EID: 33644882532     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.3.725-728.2006     Document Type: Article

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