Multicenter study evaluating performance of the smart group B streptococcus (GBS) assay using an enrichment protocol for detecting GBS colonization in patients in the antepartum period

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3193-3197

  Jordan, Jeanne A ^a,d   Hall, Geraldine ^b   Davis, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WISHARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA SMEAR;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UNITED STATES; VAGINA;

STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 77956854638     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00106-10     Document Type: Article

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