Community acquisition of group B Streptococcus by infants of colonized mothers

Gardner, S.E.; Mason, E.O.; Yow, M.D.

Pediatrics 66(6): 873-875

1980


ISSN/ISBN: 0031-4005
PMID: 7005854
Document Number: 159057
Forty-six infants of women known to be colonized by group B Streptococcus (GBS) during the third trimester of pregnancy were not colonized by GBS at the time of discharge from the hospital nursery. At 6 to 8 weeks of age, two of these infants (4.3%) were found to harbor GBS. The rate of community acquisition of GBS by uncolonized infants appears to be low.

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