Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease — Screening and Prevention.

The article focuses on the screening and prevention of neonatal group B streptococcal disease. Group B streptococcus became the leading cause of life-threatening infections in newborns during the 1970s. Infants with group B streptococcal disease have sepsis, meningitis, or pneumonia. Efforts to promote prevention in the U.S. culminated in the publication of a uniform set of recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Pediatrics. The article refers to a study that describes a method for the detection of group B streptococcus by using two polymerase-chain-reaction techniques.