Group B Streptococcus

Nursing Home Residents More Susceptible Than Community Residents

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 8th, 2001

by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is significantly more likely to affect nursing home residents than community residents of the same age, an epidemiological study has found.

Elderly nursing home patients represent a potential target group for vaccination - after a group B vaccine is developed, noted K.J. Henning and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Reporting in the April 2001 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Henning et al. noted:

From 1991 to 1995, 84 of the 999 non-pregnant adult Maryland residents with GBS isolated from a normally sterile site were...

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