Group B streptococcus colonization of pregnant women and their children observed on obstetric and neonatal wards of the University hospital in krakow, Poland

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 228-233

  Strus, Magdalena ^a   Pawlik, Dorota ^a   Brzychczy Włoch, Monika ^a   Gosiewski, Tomasz ^a   Rytlewski, Krzysztof ^a   Lauterbach, Ryszard ^a   Heczko, Piotr B ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; MACROLIDE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; COMPLICATED PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MATERNITY WARD; MOLECULAR TYPING; NEWBORN; NORMAL PREGNANCY; PHENOTYPE; POLAND; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CLINDAMYCIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MACROLIDES; POLAND; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 59949102640     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.002865-0     Document Type: Article

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