ArticleBMC pediatrics2018
Group B streptococcus late-onset disease,contaminated breast milk and mothers persistently GBS negative: report of 3cases.
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- Breast milk-associated late-onset group B streptococcus sepsis in preterm triplets: A case report and literature review.Qatar medical journal · 2025Article
- Genotype Distribution and High-Risk Factors Analysis of Group B Streptococcus in Late-Stage Pregnant Women in the Linyi Region.International journal of microbiology · 2024Article
- Late-Onset Sepsis in a Premature Infant Mediated by Breast Milk: Mother-to-Infant Transmission of Group BInfection and drug resistance · 2022Article
- Bacterial and Host Determinants of Group B Streptococcal Infection of the Neonate and Infant.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Epidemiological Characterization of Group B Streptococcus Infections in Alberta, Canada: An Update from 2014 to 2020.Microbiology spectrum · 2021Article
- Breast Milk: A Meal Worth Having.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Review
- Transmission of Group B Streptococcus in late-onset neonatal disease: a narrative review of current evidence.Therapeutic advances in infectious diseaseReview
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Abstract
backgroundHuman milk is fundamental for its nutritional properties and to protect newborns, but it is not sterile and can sometime transmit bacteria. Few anecdotal cases suggest that breast milk could be a possible source of group B Streptococcus (GBS) late onset disease, although the pathogenesis is not entirely understood. CASE PRESENTATION: We report 3 cases of GBS late onset disease in full-term newborns. Fresh breast milk cultures yielded GBS, but mothers of neonates had no signs of mastitis and remained persistently GBS negative at rectovaginal site.
conclusionsBreast milk containing group B Streptococcus can be a risk factor for late onset disease. The persistent negative maternal GBS status supports the assumption that newborns, colonised in the throat, could be the initial source of GBS, while the mammary gland could act as a GBS replication site. It is unclear whether a low bacterial load may represent only contamination rather than true milk infection.
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