Performance of RT-PCR in the detection of Streptococcus agalactiae in the anogenital tract of pregnant women

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 286, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1437-1442

  Feuerschuette, Otto May ^a,b   Serratine, Ana Claudina ^a   Bazzo, Maria Luiza ^b   Martins, Toni Ricardo ^b   Silveira, Sheila Koetker ^a   Da Silva, Rosemeri Maurici ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Group B Streptococcus; PCR; Streptococcus agalactiae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GUANIDINE; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; SIP PROTEIN, STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP B;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANT WOMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIP GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; ADULT; ANAL CANAL; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VAGINA;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877598862     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-012-2498-9     Document Type: Article

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