Development of a rapid PCR assay for screening of maternal colonization by group B Streptococcus and neonatal invasive Escherichia coli during labor

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 250-255

  De Tejada, Begoña Martínez ^a   Stan, Catalin M ^a   Boulvain, Michel ^a   Renzi, Gesuele ^a   François, Patrice ^a   Irion, Olivier ^a   Schrenzel, Jacques ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Early onset neonatal disease; Group B Streptococcus; Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

CERVIX UTERI; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 78649694431     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000314014     Document Type: Article

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