Real-time PCR targeting the sip gene for detection of group B streptococcus colonization in pregnant women at delivery

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 223-228

  Bergseng, Hakon ^a,b   Bevanger, Lars ^a,b   Rygg, Marite ^a,b   Bergh, Kare ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYIE GENE; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAPARTUM CARE; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIP GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VAGINA;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; NORWAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 33847243368     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46731-0     Document Type: Article

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