The urgent need to recognize and properly address prenatal-onset group B Streptococcus disease

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¹ Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: natisilvacosta@gmail.com.
² Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: lauraoliveira@micro.ufrj.br.
³ Department of Nursing, University centre Varaždin, University North, Croatia; Department for Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA. Electronic address: tomislav.mestrovic@gmail.com.
⁴ Clinical Research Department, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya; Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; International Society for Infectious Diseases. Electronic address: christinaobiero@gmail.com.
⁵ International Society for Infectious Diseases; Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: sslee@cuhk.edu.hk.
⁶ Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; International Society for Infectious Diseases. Electronic address: tcap@micro.ufrj.br.

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Natália Silva Costa et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2022 Nov.

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. 2022 Nov:124:168-170.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.10.016. Epub 2022 Oct 13.

¹ Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: natisilvacosta@gmail.com.
² Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: lauraoliveira@micro.ufrj.br.
³ Department of Nursing, University centre Varaždin, University North, Croatia; Department for Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA. Electronic address: tomislav.mestrovic@gmail.com.
⁴ Clinical Research Department, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya; Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; International Society for Infectious Diseases. Electronic address: christinaobiero@gmail.com.
⁵ International Society for Infectious Diseases; Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: sslee@cuhk.edu.hk.
⁶ Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; International Society for Infectious Diseases. Electronic address: tcap@micro.ufrj.br.

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Keywords: Group B Streptococcus; Neonatal infections; POGBS disease recognition month; Prenatal-onset GBS disease.

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