GBS can be detected by a vaginal or rectal swab culture, and sometimes from a urine culture. Blood tests can be used to confirm GBS infection in infants who exhibit symptoms.
Streptococcus is a bacterium which is commonly found in the throat. It can give you strep throat, rheumatic fever, scarlet fever, or tonsillitis. There are two groups, group A and B
EA and TEF can sometimes be diagnosed in fetal ultrasounds before birth. If not, these defects become obvious soon after birth, because the infant is unable to eat. The inability to pass a tube from...
In Microbiology, we usually identify mutated bacteria/mutants/mutated DNA by using a number of methods, such as: 1.) Positive selection - For example, we want to identify a mutant bacteria that are...
it depends on what kind of streptococcus you are referring to.. like for example.. streptococcus pneumoniae is transmitted through respiration..or respiratory.