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Abstract
Introduction: Despite the global effort for prevention of perinatal group B streptococcal disease, it’s still a major cause of neonatal sepsis in many geographically areas and causes morbidity and mortality in neonates.
Objective: Evaluation of the prevalence of GBS in pregnant women in the maternity hospital of Ain shams university.
Methods: During this study, 300 pregnant women were enrolled, after consenting each of them. The recruited women were classified according to their clinical features into different groups. The data was calculated as frequencies and percentage of all women. The clinical features includes parity, degree of vaginal bleeding, the number of previous Cesarean sections, neonatal intensive care entry, rupture membrane, presence of medical comorbidities, history of previous surgeries and frequencies of patients with positive and negative vaginal culture in the studied cohort.
Results: A total of 187 patients, constitutes 62.3% showed bacterial growth, however, no growth (negative culture) was detected in 37.7% of patients (n=113). Out of 187 patients with positive culture, 88.7% of cultures was positive to gram stain (n=166). Only 11.3% of grown cultures were gram negative stain and gram -ve bacterial growth was significantly associated with higher number of bacterial colonies /HPF.
Conclusions: About 2/3 of women delivered at Ain Shams University Maternity Hospitals from March 2021 to September 2021 had bacterial growth with positive culture of GBS, 88.7% of them was positive to gram stain.