Study finds Rh factor not linked to GBS status. (Large Retrospective Analysis).

OB GYN News | November 15, 2002| | Copyright

BANFF, ALTA.--Pregnant women who are Rh-factor negative don't appear to be at higher risk of group B streptococcus colonization than their Rh-positive counterparts, Dr. Philip Mead said at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology.

That's reassuring news, but it's not necessarily the end of the story. New evidence still needs to be reconciled with earlier reports showing that Rh-negative women were twice as likely as Rh-positive patients to be colonized with group B streptococcus (GBS), said the professor and chair emeritus ...

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