An Evaluation of a Rapid Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for Detection of Group B Streptococcus as Part of a Neonatal Group B Streptococcus Prevention Strategy

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 770-775

  Money, Deborah ^a   Dobson, Simon ^a   Cole, Lesley ^a   Karacabeyli, Eda ^a   Blondel Hill, Edith ^a   Milner, Ruth ^b   Thomas, Eva ^a  

^a CHILDREN S AND WOMEN S HEALTH CENTRE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Group B streptococcus screen; IDI group B assay; Labour; Molecular diagnostics; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RECTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VAGINA;

ADULT; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149401473     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(16)32940-1     Document Type: Article

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