Source of Group B Streptococci in the Female Genital Tract

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Journal J Clin Pathol

Specialty Pathology

Date 1981 Jan 1

PMID 7007448

Citations 2

Authors

P J Sanderson

J Ross

J Stringer

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Abstract

Swabs were taken from the posterior fornix, perineum, and anorectum of 135 patients on three occasions during their pregnancy. Multiple isolates of beta-haemolytic streptococci of group B were obtained from 24 women, in 21 of whom the strains were examined by a highly discriminative serotyping and phage typing method. In 18 of these patients their own isolates were indistinguishable but different from those of other women with multiple isolates. Women yielding group B streptococci from the posterior fornix usually carried an indistinguishable strain in the anorectum.

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