| Literature DB >> 18774883 |
Betsy Foxman1, Carmen L B de Azevedo, Miatta Buxton, Joan DeBusscher, Parvathy Pillai, Newton S De Carvalho, Cibele Barbosa-Cesnik.
Abstract
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a major cause of neonatal sepsis and meningitis. We followed up 78 pregnant couples for < or =2 months to estimate the risk of GBS transmission. Among couples with discordant GBS status, we observed 1 male-to-female transmission event (1 of 3 couples in which the woman was GBS negative at enrollment), but no female-to-male transmission events (0 of 8 couples in which the man was GBS negative at enrollment).Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID： 18774883 DOI： 10.1086/592221
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect Dis ISSN： 0022-1899 Impact factor: 5.226