Group B Streptococcus detection: Comparison of PCR assay and culture as a screening method for pregnant women

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 323-327

  De Paris, Fernanda ^a   Pinheiro Machado, Alice Beatriz Mombach ^a   Gheno, Tailise Conte ^b   Ascoli, Bruna Maria ^b   de Oliveira, Kátia Ruschel Pilger ^a   Barth, Afonso Luis ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Culture; Polymerase chain reaction; Pregnancy; Streptococcus agalactiae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ATR GENE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANT WOMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TODD HEWITT MEDIUM; TURNAROUND TIME; VAGINA SMEAR;

CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 80052422937     PISSN: 14138670     EISSN: 16784391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1413-86702011000400004     Document Type: Article

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