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Group B streptococcus infection in pregnancy.

Winn HN

Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, 3401 Berrywood, Suite 203, Columbia, MO 65201, USA.

Group B streptococcus (streptococcus agalactiae), a gram-positive coccus, is one of the major causes of maternal or neonatal severe infection and sepsis. Maternal infection associated with GBS includes acute chorioamnionitis, endometritis, and urinary tract infection.

Published 3 September 2007 in Clin Perinatol, 34(3): 387-92.
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