Invasive Group B Streptococcus Disease With Recurrence and in Multiples: Towards a Better Understanding of GBS Late-Onset Sepsis

Invasive Group B Streptococcus Disease With Recurrence and in Multiples: Towards a Better Understanding of GBS Late-Onset Sepsis

Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common intestinal colonizer during the neonatal period, but also may cause late-onset sepsis or meningitis in up to 0.5% of otherwise healthy colonized infants after day 3 of life. Transmission routes and risk factors of this late-onset form of invasive GBS disease (...

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Main Authors: Mirjam Freudenhammer, Konstantinos Karampatsas, Kirsty Le Doare, Fabian Lander, Jakob Armann, Daniel Acero Moreno, Margaret Boyle, Horst Buxmann, Ruth Campbell, Victoria Chalker, Robert Cunney, Lorraine Doherty, Eleri Davies, Androulla Efstratiou, Roland Elling, Matthias Endmann, Jochen Essers, Roland Hentschel, Christine E. Jones, Steffen Kallsen, Georgia Kapatai, Marcus Krüger, Shamez Ladhani, Theresa Lamagni, Diane Lindsay, Mary Meehan, Catherine P. O’Sullivan, Darshana Patel, Arlene J. Reynolds, Claudia Roll, Sven Schulzke, Andrew Smith, Anja Stein, Axel von der Wense, Egbert Voss, Christian Wieg, Christoph Härtel, Paul T. Heath, Philipp Henneke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
Subjects:
group B Streptococcus
late-onset sepsis
microbiome
multiples
recurrence
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2021.617925/full

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