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Every year, thousands of group B streptococcal (GBS) infections occur in newborns in the U.S., causing exposed fetuses to a risk of suffering other serious complications, such as brain damage, pneumonia, meningitis and bronchopulmonary dysplasia - a chronic lung disease. A fetus exposed to GBS organisms in utero and developing early onset infection is at risk for serious complications since GBS is the leading bacterial organism responsible for newborn deaths that develop early onset infection. Since many women that have GBS may not even realize they are infected because of the absence of any visible symptoms, physicians taking culture samples will be able to tell if the potentially deadly infection to a fetus is present.
The GBS infection is usually in the rectal or vaginal area of the woman, and doctors must be able to immediately administer antibiotics after labor starts to reduce risk of the rectal injury infection resulting in deadly consequence for commonly vaginal or rectal injury infection has the ability to very severely affect the baby if the amniotic fluid or contaminated birth canal also infects the baby.