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. 1981 Jan;34(1):84–86. doi: 10.1136/jcp.34.1.84

Source of group B streptococci in the female genital tract.

P J Sanderson, J Ross, J Stringer
PMCID: PMC1146418  PMID: 7007448

Abstract

Swabs were taken from the posterior fornix, perineum, and anorectum of 135 patients on three occasions during their pregnancy. Multiple isolates of beta-haemolytic streptococci of group B were obtained from 24 women, in 21 of whom the strains were examined by a highly discriminative serotyping and phage typing method. In 18 of these patients their own isolates were indistinguishable but different from those of other women with multiple isolates. Women yielding group B streptococci from the posterior fornix usually carried an indistinguishable strain in the anorectum.

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