Identification of pregnant women at risk of Streptococcus group B colonisation

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 308-312

  Romanik, Małgorzata ^a   Nowosielski, Krzysztof ^a   Martirosian, Gayane ^a   Porȩba, Ryszard ^a   Sioma Markowska, Urszula ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bacterial vaginosis; Granada medium; Group B Streptococcus colonisation; Polymorphonuclear leucocytes; Pregnancy; Todd Hewitt Broth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; GRANADA MEDIUM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHIL; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TODD HEWITT BROTH; VAGINITIS;

EID: 80051954221     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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