B群链球菌感染

群链球菌(Group B Stre Ptococci,GBC),由传染病中的地位日益显得重要,现已证明它为新生儿败血症和脑膜炎的主要病原菌之一。     

Penicillin Prophylaxis and Neonatal Streptococcal Disease

Despite a number of efforts, no means of preventing neonatal group B beta-hemolytic strep (GBS) infection by maternal treatment or immunization has proved effective. But impetus to a direct approach to the infant has been provided by the serendipitous discovery that routine penicillin prophylaxis for gonococcal ophthalmia may also protect against GBS. Large-scale controlled studies are now under way.