Prevalence, antimicrobial resistance and serotype distribution of group B streptococcus isolated among pregnant women and newborns in Rabat, Morocco.

CONCLUSION: In Morocco, maternal GBS colonization is high. Penicillin can continue to be the cornerstone of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis. A pentavalent GBS vaccine (Ia, Ib, II, III and V) would have been effective against the majority of the colonizing cases in this setting, but a trivalent one (Ia, Ib and III) would only prevent 28 % of the cases. PMID: 29543148 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - March 15, 2018 Category: Microbiology Authors: Moraleda C, Benmessaoud R, Esteban J, López Y, Alami H, Barkat A, Houssain T, Kabiri M, Bezad R, Chaacho S, Madrid L, Vila J, Muñoz-Almagro C, Bosch J, Soto SM, Bassat Q Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research