Group B Streptococcal Infections
Group B Streptococcal Infections: Introduction
Group B Streptococcal Infections:
Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a type of bacterium
that causes illness in newborn babies, pregnant women, the elderly,
and adults with other ... more about Group B Streptococcal Infections.
Group B Streptococcal Infections: "Strep" bacteria that may affect newborns and the immune-compromised; compare strep A.
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- "The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics" (2006)
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Group B Streptococcal Infections?
Misdiagnosis and Group B Streptococcal Infections
Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely
to cause some level of diarrhea in patients.
The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria,
but can also kill the "good" bacteria in the gut.
This leads to "digestive imbalance" where there are too few remaining "good"
bacteria in the digestive system.
The treatment is typically to use "probiotics", such as by eating yoghurt cultures
containing more of the good bacteria.
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Article Excerpts about Group B Streptococcal Infections
Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a type of bacterium
that causes illness in newborn babies, pregnant women, the elderly,
and adults with other illnesses, such as diabetes or liver disease.
GBS is the most common cause of life-threatening infections in
newborns. (Source: excerpt from Group B Streptococcal Disease (GBS) General: DBMD)
Definitions of Group B Streptococcal Infections:
A bacterium which causes mastitis in cattle and occasionally in man.
- (Source - Diseases Database)
Group B Streptococcal Infections is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Group B Streptococcal Infections, or a subtype of Group B Streptococcal Infections,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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