Maternity patients and their newborn infants were cultured for group B streptococci (GBS) at Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Fla., from September 1982 to May 1983. Culture swabs were placed into Lim Group B Strep Broth (GIBCO Laboratories, Madison, Wis.) and quantitated for GBS. A strong correlation was found between the numbers of GBS in the maternal vagina and the infant rectum. Infants symptomatic for early-onset GBS disease were delivered by mothers heavily colonized (greater than or equal to 3 X 10(4) GBS per swab) at the vagina. Such mothers were identified as GBS carriers by slide coagglutination and latex agglutination after their broth cultures had been incubated for 5 h. These data indicate that maternity patients at high risk of delivering infants heavily colonized with GBS and potentially symptomatic for early-onset GBS disease can be rapidly and selectively identified.
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机译：1982年9月至1983年5月，在佛罗里达州坦帕市坦帕综合医院为B组链球菌（GBS）培养产妇患者和新生儿。将培养拭子放入Lim B组链球菌肉汤（GIBCO实验室，威斯康星州麦迪逊市）。 ）并量化GBS。发现在母体阴道和婴儿直肠中的GBS数量之间存在很强的相关性。有症状的早期发作的GBS疾病的婴儿是由在阴道处严重定植的母亲（每支拭子大于或等于3 X 10（4）GBS）提供的。在将其肉汤培养物孵育5小时后，通过载玻片凝集和乳胶凝集将这类母亲鉴定为GBS携带者。这些数据表明，可以快速，有选择地识别出分娩重度感染GBS并可能有症状的早产GBS疾病的高分娩孕妇。
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