Real-time PCR assay provides reliable assessment of intrapartum carriage of group B Streptococcus

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3095-3099

  Alfa, Michelle J ^a   Sepehri, Shadi ^a   De Gagne, Pat ^a   Helawa, Michael ^a   Sandhu, Gunwat ^a   Harding, Godfrey K M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIURIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA SMEAR;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 77956853013     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00594-10     Document Type: Article

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