Introduction: The incidence of invasive GBS disease in adults 65 yrs of age and older is increasing and associated mortality is high. Rates of GBS colonization and prevalence of antibodies to the capsular polysaccharide (CPS) that might protect the elderly against invasive GBS disease are unknown....
neonatal sepsis. More recently, numerous series have describedS agalactiaeas a cause of infection in nonpregnant adults, providing descriptions of the clinical spectrum of disease, including clinical features, risk factors, therapy, and outcome of group B streptococcal infection in nonpregnant adults. ...
History GBS infection in healthy adults is becoming more prevalent in nonpregnant adults and is almost always associated with underlying comorbidities, with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, older age, lower socioeconomic status and obesity being the most common in some series. [12] [29, 32] ...
Background: Although invasive GBS disease (GBS) incidence is highest in infants, GBS in non-pregnant adults accounted for 86% of all GBS during 1998-2009. The incidence of GBS and recurrent GBS increased over the past 12 years in MN. We examined clinical and epidemiological characteristics of...
PERINATAL GROUP B Streptococcus (GBS) disease prevention guidelines are credited for the low rate of early-onset disease (EOD) cases of GBS in the United States, but the practice of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP) remains controversial in places like the United Kingdom where the National...
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GBS can also cause infection in adults with diabetes and other immunological impairments but rarely leads to pneumonia in adults. GBS has occasionally been found in the sputum of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients, an inherited condition known for progressive lung disease. However, the epidemiology and ...
The greatest burden of invasive GBS disease is seen in infants <3 months of age, although GBS can cause disease in adults and pregnant women. Disease manifesting in the first 6 days of life is referred to as early-onset disease (EOD), whereas late-onset disease (LOD) manifests from day...
In adults, GBS may cause disease in pregnant women, the immunocompromised and the elderly. In order to quantify the GBS carriage rate and serotype distribution in a contemporary Norwegian population of women at delivery and to investigate the resulting burden of disease, we carried out a ...
In adults and children older than 1 year of age,969 cases were reported. The incidence of invasive GBSdisease increased significantly in the elderly, while theincidence of neonatal early-onset disease was stable with0.46 cases per 1,000 live births. The incidence of late-onsetdisease increased ...