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Group B streptococcus colonization of pregnant women and their children observed on obstetric and neonatal wards of the University Hospital in Krakow, Poland.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Feb 2009
Strus Magdalena, Pawlik Dorota, Brzychczy-Włoch Monika, Gosiewski Tomasz, Rytlewski Krzysztof, Lauterbach Ryszard, Heczko Piotr B
Abstract excerpt
The study was arranged to assess the actual rates of colonization of pregnant women and their children with group B streptococcus (GBS) in a Polish university hospital. Resistance of these cocci to macrolides and clindamycin was also tested and routes of transmission of GBS were followed in some cases using molecular typing. Colonization with GBS was checked in 340 pregnant women living in the south-eastern...
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