GBS Medical Articles & Abstracts
ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT
 Persistence of penicillin G benzathine in pregnant group B streptococcus carriers. (abstract)
Weeks JW, Myers SR, Lasher L, Goldsmith J, Watkins C, Gall SA.
Obstet Gynecol. 1997 Aug;90(2):240-3.
Efficacy of intramuscular penicillin in the eradication of group B streptococcal colonization at delivery. (abstract)
Pinette MG, Thayer K, Wax JR, Blackstone J, Cartin A.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2005 May; 17(5):333-5.
Late third-trimester treatment of rectovaginal group B streptococci with benzathine penicillin G. (abstract)
Bland ML, Vermillion ST, Soper DE.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2000 Aug;183(2):372-6.
BREASTFEEDING
Isotype composition of antibodies to streptococcus group B type III polysaccharide and to tetanus toxoid in maternal, cord blood sera and in breast milk (abstract)
Lagergard T, Thiringer K, Wassen L, Schneerson R, Trollfors B., Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Goteborg, Sweden.
Eur J Pediatr. 1992 Feb;151(2):98-102.
Immunoglobulin concentrations and bacterial antibody titres in breast milk from mothers of 'preterm' and 'term' infants (abstract)
Suzuki S, Lucas A, Lucas PJ, Coombs RR.
Acta Paediatr Scand. 1983 Sep;72(5):671-7.
GBS IN URINE
Antibiotic Elimination of Group-B Streptococci in Urine in Prevention of Preterm Labour
AC Thomsen, L Morup, KB Hansen, The Lancet, 1(8533):591-593, 1987.
Prevention of Group B Streptococcal Disease in the Newborn
BS Apgar, MD, MS; G Greenberg, MD, MA; and G YEN, MD, American Family Physician, March 1 2005
“Compared with infants born to lightly colonized women, those born to heavily colonized women have 2.5 times the risk of infection. Neonates born to mothers who have GBS bacteriuria at any time during pregnancy are known to be more frequently and more heavily colonized with GBS and are more likely to develop sepsis.
Infections that occur in the first two days of life usually are caused by exposure to maternal organisms. Risk factors for neonatal transmission and infection are listed in Table 1. Compared with term newborns, preterm and low-birth-weight infants have increased rates of GBS sepsis.”
Urinary Tract Infections During Pregnancy
John E. Delzell Jr, MD, and Michael L. Lefevre, MD, MSPH, American Family Physician, February 2001.
GBS TESTS
FDA Clears New Lab Test for Group B strep in Pregnant Women
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA Talk Paper, November 18, 2002.
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