The Frequency of Rectovaginal Group B Streptococci in Third Trimester Pregnant Women and Affecting Factors
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Aim: Rectovaginal Group B streptococci (GBS) colonization one of reason the mortality and morbidity in pregnant. It seems asymptomatic generally but cause to wide infection from urinary infection to sepsis. GBS frequency was investigated in third trimester of pregnant women in this study.
Materials and methods: The study was done in the autpatient clinic of medical faculty gynecology and obstetric department. Vaginal and anorectal swab was taken from pregnant women who are 30 weeks or more gestational age. Descriptive statistics, chi-square, student-t and Mann-Whitney U test was used in the analyzing the data and p<0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results: In the study of 214 pregnant women, 17 (7.9%) of GBS was reproduction. There was no significance the incidence of GBS colonization in pregnant women with educational status, living space, socio-economic status, gestational history, hypertension, diabetes, smoking and use of intrauterin device. We found higher incidence of GBS colonization in pregnant with irregular menstrual cycles, using any method of birth control before pregnancy and higher age of first pregnancy. It produced 27.5% of Staphylococcus epidermidis, 25.7% of Enterococcus faecalis, 20.9% of Candida albicans in samples except GBS in the microbial culture.
Conclusion: GBS observed increase in pregnant women age of first pregnancy is high, menstruel cycle irregularities and using birth control method. Comprehensive studies are needed with these parameters. GBS screening should be incorporated into routine prenatal follow the program for avoid newborn infection.
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Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Pınar Kalpakçı
Bu kişi benim
Çekerek Aile Sağlığı Merkezi, Çekerek, Yozgat, Türkiye
Türkiye
Ali Ramazan Benli
Karabük Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, Aile Hekimliği A.D
Türkiye
Selman Erturhan
Bu kişi benim
Yıldızeli Aile Sağlığı Merkezi, Yıldızeli, Sivas
Türkiye
Yeltekin Demirel
Ondokuz Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, Aile Hekimliği A.D., Sivas
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
4 Temmuz 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
4 Temmuz 2017
Kabul Tarihi
8 Ocak 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: 7 Sayı: 2
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