Comparison of different sampling techniques and of different culture methods for detection of group B streptococcus carriage in pregnant women

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  El Aila, Nabil A ^a   Tency, Inge ^b   Claeys, Geert ^b   Saerens, Bart ^a   Cools, Piet ^a   Verstraelen, Hans ^b   Temmerman, Marleen ^b   Verhelst, Rita ^a   Vaneechoutte, Mario ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA SMEAR; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VAGINA;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERINEUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, TRANSFER; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 77957126818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-285     Document Type: Article

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