Although GBS infection usually causes no problems in healthy women before pregnancy, it can cause serious illness for the mother and baby during pregnancy and after delivery. GBS affects 1 in every 2,000 babies in the United States alone. It is a serious concern, as 1 out of every 4 or ...
Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (AST) If only one type of bacteria grows in the culture, the lab will expose the bacteria to a variety of antibiotics to see to which ones the bacteria are sensitive. This usually takes one day after the culture is positive. It helps to decide which antibi...
Urine drug testing is often performed to test the presence of illegal, mind-altering, or performance-enhancing substances in the urine of employees, athletes, or people on probation or parole. How long a substance can be detected in your urine can depend on a number of factors: ...
GBS and the newborn infant best way of detecting GBS infection as early as possible in these babies. In the USA,where GBS infection was very much more common than in the UK, all mothers have a vaginal swab to look for GBS carriage late in pregnancy. If the swab is... ARB Russell 被...
Long-term effects had themes such as pregnancy. One issue with this paper was that they never employed experts to check the relevance of the tweets with respect to these topics, which is a common problem in mining social media data. A study by Glowacki et al [13] collected tweets during...
The Pap smear, however, may very well be run out of town now thatHPV DNA testing is included in the Affordable Care Act, offering women over 30 HPV testing every three years. Of course, it’s hard to say, since thisHPV DNA test only detects 13 types of HPV; and while the types of...
What you need to know Introducing routine testing for group B streptococcus (GBS) for all women in late pregnancy would likely reduce cases of early onset infection in their newborns, but might also increase the number of women given an... KF Walker,J Plumb,J Gray,... - BMJ 被引量: ...
13 Zika virus serologic testing (Zika virus immunoglobulin M and neutralizing antibody titers) can be performed later. Recently, the CDC stated that urine should be collected, in addition to blood, for rRT-PCR testing. It is thought that Zika virus RNA remains present in the urine for up ...
The accuracy of the test depends on the quality of the manufacturer’s test, the sample collection method, and how much virus a person is shedding at the time of testing. Like seasonal flu, pandemic swine flu can cause neurologic symptoms in children. These events are rare, but, as cases...
The problem is that GBS can come and go. It may be present when a woman is screened late in pregnancy but not at the time of birth. And more than 60% of confirmed GBS sepsis (blood infection) cases in babies occur in mothers who tested negative for GBS when screenedaround 36 weeks. ...