A Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) has told a health board to review its weekend and evening staff following the death of a ...

Streptococcus agalactiae, commonly known as Group B Streptococcus (GBS), is a significant pathogen that can lead to serious ...

Learn about Group B Strep (GBS), its causes, symptoms, risks, and treatment. Understand how Group B Streptococcus affects ...

"Our findings suggest that iGBS [invasive group B Streptococcus disease] prevention should be considered in future clinical practice for pregnant people. Successful prevention of iGBS would ...

A grieving mother has called for routine testing for group B streptococcal bacteria in ... and the only thing I remember during my pregnancy with Joshua was a midwife asking at an antenatal ...

To add to the worry, the condition usually only affects pregnant women who in turn can pass what's known as GBS disease to their unborn child. So just how dangerous is group B strep, and what's ...

The trial is looking at the best way to detect Group B Strep - a bacteria carried by one in four pregnant women, though most do not know they have it. It is harmless in most cases, but there is a ...

Pregnant women who received Pfizer’s group B streptococcus vaccine transferred antibodies to their infants. The phase 2 trial uncovered no safety concerns related to receiving the vaccine.

GBS6 elicited anti-CPS antibodies against group B streptococcus in pregnant women that were transferred to infants at levels associated with a reduced risk of invasive group B streptococcal disease.

Group B streptococcus (GBS) is the most common cause of life-threatening infection in newborn babies, and it can kill within hours – yet the UK doesn’t routinely test pregnant women for it.