Prevention of Group B streptococcus infection

Group B streptococcus infection: risk and prevention.

Group B Streptococcus (group B Strep or GBS) is the UK's commonest cause of severe early-onset (up to six days) infection in babies. GBS is a normal body commensal, colonising the gut and vagina. GBS may pass to babies around childbirth; although most are unaffected, some develop severe infection. GBS is also a recognised cause of stillbirth and puerperal sepsis. Most GBS infection in babies is...

Prevention of neonatal group B streptococcal infection.

Neonatal group B streptococcal infection is the primary cause of neonatal morbidity related to infection. It can often be prevented by identifying and treating pregnant women who carry group B streptococci or who are at highest risk of transmitting the bacteria to newborns. Increasing evidence and expert opinion support intrapartum treatment of women at relatively high risk of delivering an inf...

Investigation of Betahemolytic Streptococcus Group B in Natural Vaginal Flora

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738The Increasing Threat of Group B Streptococcus Infection in Adults

Overwhelming post-splenectomy infection with group B Streptococcus.

A case of overwhelming post-splenectomy infection is described. This occurred 10 years after splenectomy in an otherwise normal male adult. The infecting organism, ,3-haemolytic Streptococcus Group B, is usually of low pathogenicity, but in this case caused profound hypotension, jaundice and the shock lung syndrome. Overwhelming post-splenectomy infection with this organism has not previously b...