Serotype-specific acquisition and loss of group B Streptococcus recto-vaginal colonization in late pregnancy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Kwatra, Gaurav ^a   Adrian, Peter V ^a   Shiri, Tinevimbo ^a   Buchmann, Eckhart J ^a   Cutland, Clare L ^a   Madhi, Shabir A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RECTOVAGINAL COLONIZATION; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPE; SOUTH AFRICA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VAGINA CYTOLOGY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RECTUM; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VAGINA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; RECTUM; SEROGROUP; SOUTH AFRICA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 84903649468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098778     Document Type: Article

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