Streptococcus agalactiae: Sensitivity profile in pregnant women attending health units in northeastern Brazil

doi:10.5317/wjog.v9.i1.11

Advanced Search

BPG is committed to discovery and dissemination of knowledge

Home / Archive / Volume 9, Issue 1

This Article

Academic Content and Language Evaluation of This Article

CrossCheck and Google Search of This Article

Academic Rules and Norms of This Article

Citation of this article

Corresponding Author of This Article

Research Domain of This Article

Article-Type of This Article

Open-Access Policy of This Article

Times Cited Counts in Google of This Article

Number of Hits and Downloads for This Article

Total Article Views (5961)

All Articles published online

The chart showing PDF series, WORD series, HTML series, Tables (1-1) series.

Item

Count

PDF

199

WORD

158

HTML

1627

Tables (1-1)

185

Sum=2169

Featured Article

The chart showing Browse series, Download series.

Item

Count

Browse

580

Download

1277

Sum=1857

Publishing Process of This Article

Item

Count

Browse

593

Download

1342

Sum=1935

Dec 6, 2020 (publication date) through Apr 19, 2024

Times Cited of This Article

Times Cited (0)

Journal Information of This Article

Publication Name

World Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

ISSN

2218-6220

Publisher of This Article

Baishideng Publishing Group Inc, 7041 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 160, Pleasanton, CA 94566, USA

Retrospective Study

World J Obstet Gynecol. Dec 6, 2020; 9(1): 11-17
Published online Dec 6, 2020. doi: 10.5317/wjog.v9.i1.11

Streptococcus agalactiae: Sensitivity profile in pregnant women attending health units in northeastern Brazil

Tais Viana Ledo de Oliveira, Fabrícia Almeida Fernandes Santana, Caline Novais Teixeira Oliveira, Maria Luísa Cordeiro Santos, Fabrício Freire de Melo, Cláudio Lima Souza, Márcio Vasconcelos Oliveira, Instituto Multidisciplinar em Saúde, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Vitória da Conquista 45029-094, Bahia, Brazil

Author contributions: All authors equally contributed to this paper with conception and design of the study, literature review and analysis, drafting, critical revision and editing, and final approval of the final version.

Institutional review board statement: This research was approved by the Teaching and Research Committee of the Municipal Health Secretariat of Vitória da Conquista and approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Universidade da Federal da Bahia, under the number CAAE 58104116.8.0000.5556 and protocol number 1.736.058.

Informed consent statement: An informed consent statement was obtained from all the individuals included.

Conflict-of-interest statement: No potential conflicts of interest.

Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.

Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Corresponding author: Fabrício Freire de Melo, PhD, Postdoc, Professor, Instituto Multidisciplinar em Saúde, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Hormindo Barros, 58, Quadra 17, Lote 58, Vitória da Conquista 45029-094, Bahia, Brazil. freiremelo@yahoo.com.br

Received: April 26, 2020
Peer-review started: April 26, 2020
First decision: August 9, 2020
Revised: August 22, 2020
Accepted: September 18, 2020
Article in press: September 18, 2020
Published online: December 6, 2020

Core Tip

Core Tip: This is a cross-sectional study of pregnant women, with gestational age of 32-40 wk, carried out in Vitória da Conquista–Bahia. The objective was to evaluate the sensitivity profile of group B Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) isolated from vaginorectal samples. 210 pregnant women participated in this investigation. Of the strains isolated, 18.4% were resistant to clindamycin and 21.1% were resistant to erythromycin. The results suggest that chemoprophylaxis for GBS should be guided by antimicrobial susceptibility testing as an important percentage of GBS strains resistant to second-choice antibiotics were observed, corroborating data in the literature from similar studies.