Maternal screening strategy more effective than risk-based approaches for preventing group B streptococcal disease in neonates.
Marsland
Thomas
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UNC Dept of Family Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. thomas_marsland@med.unc.edu
King
Valerie
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D000328:Adult; D019072:Antibiotic Prophylaxis; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000379:methods; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods; D011336:Probability; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission*; D013292:Streptococcus agalactiae / Q000302:isolation & purification*