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Comparison of Xpert GBS assay and GBS culture on amniotic fluid samples versus GBS culture screening at 35 to 37 weeks gestation in women with PROM ≥37 weeks gestation
| Documented results of antepartum GBS culture | Results of intrapartum Xpert GBS assay (PCR) and GBS culturea |
Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCR +/culture+ | PCR+/culture− | PCR−/culture+ | PCR−/culture− | ||
| Positive | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| Negative | 5 | 1 | 0 | 116 | 122 |
| Not available | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| Total | 10 | 2 | 1 | 126 | 139 |
+, positive; −, negative.
