Institutional prevention policies and rates of Group B Streptococcus infection among HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants in Latin America

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
6187285	International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics	2013	4 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Improved efforts to implement prevention policies and continued surveillance for GBS are needed to understand the impact of GBS among HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants in Latin America.

Keywords

maternal HIV Pregnancy Institutional policy Infection rates group B Streptococcus

Related Topics

Health Sciences Medicine and Dentistry Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health

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Institutional prevention policies and rates of Group B Streptococcus infection among HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants in Latin America

Authors

Esaú Joao, Maria I. Gouvea, Laura Freimanis-Hance, Rachel A. Cohen, Jennifer S. Read, Victor Melo, Geraldo Duarte, Silvina Ivalo, Daisy M. Machado, Jose Pilotto, George K. Siberry, for the NISDI/LILAC Protocol for the NISDI/LILAC Protocol,