Investigation Uncovers How Baby Might Can Get GBS
A report disclosed that sixty percent of newborns infected with gbs were born to women who screened negative during the pregnancy. This may be on account of the way that expecting mothers have been tested. Ordinarily screening for the presence of the group b strep bacteria is performed between the Thirty-fifth and thirty-seventh week of the pregnancy. According to the research around 85% of expecting mothers are tested.
Yet the Group B Streptococcus bacteria can colonize after expecting mother is tested but earlier than labor and delivery. In such situations, antibiotics will generally not be given by doctors and as a result the danger that the bacteria will be transmitted from mother to infant and that the baby will get the group b strep infection is not fully removed.