Evaluation of the new Brilliance GBS chromogenic medium 1 for the screening of Streptococcus agalactiae vaginal colonization 2 in pregnant women
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Evaluation of the new Brilliance GBS chromogenic medium 1 for the screening of Streptococcus agalactiae vaginal colonization 2 in pregnant women 3 4 Paul. O. Verhoeven, Pauline Noyel, Julie Bonneau, , Anne Carricajo, Nathalie Fonsale, 5 Alain Ros, Bruno Pozzetto and Florence Grattard 6 7 1 GIMAP EA 3064 (Groupe Immunité des Muqueuses et Agents Pathogènes), University of 8 Lyon, 42023 Saint-Etienne, France. 9 2 Laboratory of Bacteriology-Virology-Hygiene, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, 42055 10 Saint-Etienne Cedex 02, France. 11 12 Running title: Evaluation of chromogenic media for GBS screening 13 Keys words: Streptococcus agalactiae, group B streptococcus, microbiological techniques, 14 chromogenic medium, vaginal colonization, pregnancy, human. 15 Abstract word count: 47 16 Main text word count: 1119 17 Corresponding authors: Prof. Bruno Pozzetto, MD, PhD 18 Laboratory of Bacteriology-Virology-Hygiene 19 University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, 42055 Saint Etienne Cedex 02, France 20 Phone number: (33)477828434 21 Fax number: (33)477828460 22 Email: [email protected] 23 JCM Accepts, published online ahead of print on 8 January 2014 J. Clin. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/JCM.02926-13 Copyright © 2014, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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Evaluation of the new brilliance GBS chromogenic medium for screening of Streptococcus agalactiae vaginal colonization in pregnant women.
Three commercial chromogenic agar media were evaluated for Streptococcus agalactiae screening in 200 vaginal swabs from pregnant women. The sensitivity and specificity were 94.3% and 100% for Granada medium (bioMérieux), 100% and 90.3% for Brilliance GBS medium (Thermo Fisher Scientific), and 100% and 98.8% for ChromID STRB medium (bioMérieux), respectively.
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