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KMID : 0351219940260010021
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Korean Journal of Infectious Diseases
1994 Volume.26 No. 1 p.21 ~ p.27
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Group B Streptococcus Infection : Gurrent Situation Based on Cultural Results
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Abstract
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Clinical significance of Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococci, GBS) infection was recognized only in the 1970s. GBS causes serious neonatal infections as well as various diseases in adults with underlying diseases. Increased GBS
infection
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reported increasingly in other countries, but in Korea, out knowledge on the infection is very limited. To determine the current situation of GBS infection, we retrospectively analysed the cultural results of β-hemolytic streptococci from
various
clinical materials during the years 1986-1990 at Severance hospital and the significance on the GBS infections. GBS was the second most frequently isolated group of β-hemolytic streptococci and the proportion was increased. It was more
frequently
isolated from 30-39 year-old women and genitourinary specimens. It was relatively frequently isolated from neonates and adults with underlying diseases. It is concluded that rapid and accurate microbiological diagnosis is very important for the
proper
treatment of GBS-infected patients, as GBS infections in neonates is often serious and those in adults with underlying disease results in relatively high mortalilty, and as some isolates are resistant to antimicrobial agents.
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