Acquisition and transmission of group B Streptococcus during pregnancy.
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).
Foxman
Betsy
B
Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA. bfoxman@umich.edu
de Azevedo
Carmen L B
CL
Buxton
Miatta
M
DeBusscher
Joan
J
Pillai
Parvathy
P
De Carvalho
Newton S
NS
Barbosa-Cesnik
Cibele
C
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission*; D013292:Streptococcus agalactiae