Evaluation of polymerase chain reaction for group b streptococcus detection using an improved culture method

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 488-491

  Atkins, Kristin L ^a   Shanks, Anthony ^a   Parvin, Curtis A ^a   Dunne, W Michael ^a   Gross, Gilad ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARRIER STATE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 33748355114     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000228961.42272.31     Document Type: Article

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