Streptococcus Agalactiae

Cause of postpartum infection
The most common cause of neonatal sepsis
Group B streptococci colonize
The vaginal and gastrointestinal tract
As a cause of infection in pregnant women
Can be manifest by chorioamnionitis, endometritis
Genitourinary infection with bacteremia
Cardiovascular and genitourinary abnormalities

Streptococcus agalactiae

Pnemonia
Soft tissue infection
Pelvic abscess
Urinary tract infection
Abscess drainage
Osteomyelitis
Genitourinary obstruction
Septic arthritis

Streptococci has significant mortality
In both neonates and adults
It's a gram-positive coccus
That forms glistening gray-white colonies
Group B streptococcal infection
In the nonpregnant adult carries
A high morbidity and a high mortality
Rate even with early and appropriate therapy

Streptococcus agalactiae