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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation makes $100m grant towards Group B Strep vaccine

We welcome the news that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Pfizer a $100 million grant to support the development of their Group B Strep vaccine. “Prevention is always better than cure, and a safe and effective group Read more…

By issad@lshtm.ac.uk, 7 months27 October 2022 ago
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Group B Strep Vaccines – Animation

The IMPRINT network recently produced the animation resource below explaining Group B Strep vaccines aimed at a general audience. They will also be translating the video into other languages available in 2023. For more IMPRINT GBS videos please visit https://www.imprint-network.co.uk/videos.

By issad@lshtm.ac.uk, 7 months27 October 2022 ago
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World Meningitis Day

On the 5th of October, we joined organisations and individuals around the globe to mark World Meningitis Day 2022. Together, meningitis and neonatal sepsis are the second biggest infectious cause of death in children under five. They can kill in hours, Read more…

By issad@lshtm.ac.uk, 7 months25 October 2022 ago
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Sepsis Awareness Month

The infections that GBS most commonly causes in newborn babies are sepsis (infection of the blood), pneumonia (infection in the lungs) and meningitis (infection of the fluid and lining around the brain). Although GBS infection can make babies very unwell, Read more…

By issad@lshtm.ac.uk, 9 months25 August 2022 ago
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‘Young ISSAD’ Committee

The Group B Strep International Conference (ISSAD) is looking to form a ‘Young ISSAD’ committee to advise on communication and events leading up to and contributing to ISSAD 2023 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. ‘Young ISSAD’ committee meetings will be Read more…

By issad@lshtm.ac.uk, 10 months28 July 2022 ago
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GBS South Africa 🖤

To kickstart GBS Awareness month off I would like to welcome the Group B Strep Support Group of South Africa! This is a support group started by a team of passionate health care professionals with the hopes of improving the Read more…

By issad@lshtm.ac.uk, 11 months30 June 2022 ago
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New Lancet Global Health: ‘Group B streptococcus infection during pregnancy and infancy: estimates of regional and global burden’

Bronner Gonçalves, Epidemiologist, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has released a new article on the ‘Group B streptococcus infection during pregnancy and infancy: estimates of regional and global burden’, in Lancet Global Health April 2022. “Better ways to Read more…

By issad@lshtm.ac.uk, 1 year5 May 2022 ago
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NEW manuscript release in Lancet eClinical Medicine on the Neurodevelopmental and growth outcomes after invasive Group B Streptococcus in early infancy

Proma Paul, Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has released a new manuscript on the ‘Neurodevelopmental and growth outcomes after invasive Group B Streptococcus in early infancy: A multi-country matched cohort study in South Africa, Mozambique, India, Read more…

By issad@lshtm.ac.uk, 1 year28 April 2022 ago
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NEW open-access supplement in Clinical Infectious Diseases!

“Every Country, Every Family: Group B Streptococcal Disease Worldwide” is a series of nine papers coordinated by LSHTM, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and involving 61 authors from 6 continents. Please find access to the supplement here: Read more…

By issad@lshtm.ac.uk, 1 year24 January 2022 ago
Abeba Mengist, Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology in Debre Markos University, Ethiopia
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ISSAD Conference 2021 – Poster Prize

Congratulations to Abeba Mengist, Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology in Debre Markos University, Ethiopia. Abeba’s poster submission ‘Vaginal Group B Streptococcus Colonization: Prevalence, Associated Factors and Antimicrobial Susceptibility pattern among Pregnant Women in Jimma, Ethiopia’, was awarded best poster prize Read more…

By issad@lshtm.ac.uk, 1 year14 January 2022 ago

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