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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 16.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2016 Sep 1;35(9):933–942. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000001233

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Studies of maternal GBS colonization in sub-Saharan Africa. A: Forest plot from random-effects meta-analysis of proportion of pregnant women colonized with GBS in sub-Saharan Africa. Studies in which a swab for culture was collected from women antepartum or in labor were included10–24 (Musa Mohammed, personal communication, January 27, 2015). B: Proportion (%) of women colonized by the number of women cultured in each study. Larger studies consistently showed a colonization rate of ~21%–22% and smaller studies are arrayed symmetrically around this average.