Epidemiology

GBS and One Health

by May Murra Over the past three decades several novel zoonotic infectious diseases have emerged due to human activities such as changes in ecosystems, land-use, intensification of agriculture, urbanization and international travel and trade. A collaboration involving animal, human and environmental health including wildlife health was needed. This collaboration started Read more…

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‘Better quantitative understanding of the trajectories of GBS carriage during pregnancy is essential for the design of informative epidemiological studies.’.

Maternal colonization by Group B Streptococcus (GBS) can lead to severe infection in neonates and has also been associated with prematurity and stillbirth. Bronner P. Gonçalves’s comments on research into maternal Group B Strep colonisation. Bronner P. Gonçalves’s research, recently published in the iScience Journal, ‘Inferring longitudinal patterns of group Read more…

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