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Article: Rapid test has its place in GBS infection prevention.(Obstetrics)
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- OB GYN News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Rapid realtime polymerase chain reaction testing for group B streptococcus detection proved at least as sensitive and specific as standard culture screening at 35-37 weeks' gestation in a recent study.
Two vaginal-rectal swabs were collected from each of 190 women enrolled in the study after presenting in labor. One sample was tested using the Food and Drug Administration-approved IDI-Strep B assay and analyzed using the FDA-approved Smart Cycler I instrument; the other sample was used for enriched culture for GBS, Deborah M. Money, M.D., reported at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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