Group B Strep Isolated. Because group B streptococci may colonize skin and mucosal surfaces and may be isolated from infected sites along with other virulent organisms their role in pathogenesis has often been questioned. If so you should be given antibiotics to treat it.
The bacteria can be passed from mother to baby during labour and lead to infection in the first week of life early onset infection. Group b streptococcus is a bacteria present in the vagina and rectum in approximately 20 of women. Agalactiae also known as group B streptococcus or GBS.
Group B streptococci GBS are known to colonise the genital tract in 418 of healthy women 1 and are frequently isolated in genital specimens taken from patients attending genitourinary medicine GUM clinics with vulvovaginal symptoms.
The bacteria can be passed from mother to baby during labour and lead to infection in the first week of life early onset infection. If group B Strep has been found from a urine sample during your pregnancy you may have a urinary tract infection. Because group B streptococci may colonize skin and mucosal surfaces and may be isolated from infected sites along with other virulent organisms their role in pathogenesis has often been questioned. Laboratories which report beta-hemolytic streptococcal isolates from the pharynx only as group A or non-group A should be encouraged to perform definitive group identification of all beta-hemolytic isolates to further evaluate the role of other streptococcal groups as the causative agents for pharyngitis.