Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Serotype Distribution of Group B Streptococcus Colonization in HIV-Infected Pregnant Women Living in Belgium: A Prospective Cohort Study.
Nicolas DaubyCatherine AdlerVeronique Y Miendje DeyiRosalie SacheliLaurent BussonMustapha ChamekhArnaud MarchantPatricia BarlowStéphane De WitJack LevyPierrette MelinTessa GoetghebuerPublished in: Open forum infectious diseases (2018)
HIV-infected and -uninfected pregnant women living in Belgium have a similar GBS colonization rate. A trend to a higher colonization rate with serotype III was found in HIV-infected women, and those serotype III strains belong predominantly to the hypervirulent clone ST17.
Keyphrases
- hiv infected
- pregnant women
- klebsiella pneumoniae
- dengue virus
- risk factors
- antiretroviral therapy
- pregnancy outcomes
- escherichia coli
- human immunodeficiency virus
- zika virus
- multidrug resistant
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- disease virus
- biofilm formation
- type diabetes
- aedes aegypti
- candida albicans
- adipose tissue
- hepatitis c virus
- cervical cancer screening