Chronic Carrier State in Mothers of Infants With Group B Streptococcal Infections
作者:
ANNA-KARIN DYKES,
KAREN CHRISTENSEN,
POUL CHRISTENSEN,
期刊:
Obstetrics & Gynecology
(OVID Available online 1985)
卷期:
Volume 66,
issue 1
页码: 84-88
ISSN:0029-7844
年代: 1985
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Seven of eight women who had given birth to infants with early onset or intrauterine infection caused by group B streptococci remained carriers of the same serotype of group B streptococci up to 38 months after their pregnancy. In contrast, only 34 of 88 group B streptococci carriers who had given birth to healthy infants harbored the same serotype at the 34 months' follow-up (P=.009). Among the control subjects, 29 of 71 showed increased serum levels at followup of antibodies against the serotype isolated at delivery, a significantly higher proportion compared with the mothers of infected infants/fetuses. The results indicate that mothers of group B streptococci-infected infants are chronic urogenital carriers of group B streptococci without responding immunologically against the organism.
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