Surveillance of serotypes and antimicrobial susceptibility profile in group B streptococcus (GBS) in Belgium

peer reviewed ; BACKGROUND Today GBS vaccines for prevention of severe neonatal disease through transplacental delivery of antibodies directly from immunized mothers are in advanced stage of development. For the introduction of any GBS vaccine there are urgent needs for pre and post vaccine enhanced surveillance studies of strains isolated from both neonatal diseases and vagino-rectal colonization of pregnant women. In Belgium, surveillance of invasive isolates is regularly done by the NRC. We report in this study a surveillance of colonizing isolates of GBS. METHODS In 2012, 344 GBS isolates... Mehr ...