Culture-based method with performance comparable to that of PCRbased methods for detection of group b streptococcus in screening samples from pregnant women

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1253-1255

  Berg, Benjamin R ^a   Houseman, Jeana L ^a   Garrasi, Michelle A ^a   Young, Carol L ^a   Newton, Duane W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTAL SWAB; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA SMEAR;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

DAUCUS CAROTA; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 84875860248     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02780-12     Document Type: Article

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