Study reveals GBS screening misses cases
July 1, 2009 on 9:30 pm | By admin | In HealthA study revealed that sixty percent of infants infected with Group B Strep are born to women who tested negative. This could be due to the way that pregnant women have been screened. Typically screening for the presence of the Group B Strep bacteria is done between the 35th and 37th week of the pregnancy. According to the study approximately 85 percent of pregnant women are screened. But the Group B Strep bacteria can colonize after the woman is screened but before labor and delivery. Under such circumstances, no antibiotics will be administered and thus the risk that the bacteria will be transmitted from mother to baby and that the baby will suffer from a Group B Strep infection is not reduced at all.