Selective versus non-selective culture medium for group B Streptococcus detection in pregnancies complicated by preterm labor or preterm-premature rupture of membranes

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 247-250

  Nomura, Marcelo Luís ^a   Passini Jr , Renato ^a   Oliveira, Ulysses Moraes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Culture media; Premature rupture of membranes; Preterm labor; Streptococcus agalactiae

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA SMEAR;

COHORT STUDIES; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 33947407967     PISSN: 14138670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1413-86702006000400006     Document Type: Article

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