. 2004 Jan;42(1):83–89. doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.1.83-89.2004

TABLE 1.

Carriage of GBS during pregnancy

Group	No. of GBS-positive sample pairs obtained from each woman	No. of participants in each group with^a:
Group	No. of GBS-positive sample pairs obtained from each woman	3 sp/woman	4 sp/woman	5 sp/woman	6 sp/woman
Permanent noncarriers	0	2^a	13	20	5
Transient colonization^b	1	0	2	1	3
	2	1	0	2	0
	3	3	1	0	0
	4		5	1	2
	5			10	1
	6				3

The values indicate the number of participants in each group (n = 75). There were three or more sample pairs (sp; one vaginal and one rectal sample per pair; mean, 4.8 pairs) per woman. Regular typeface, permanent noncarriers (n = 40), 53%; italics, intermittent carriers (n = 14), 19%; boldface, persistent carriers (n = 21), 28%.

See the text.