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FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Pfizer’s Group B Streptococcus Vaccine Candidate to Help Prevent Infection in Infants Via Immunization of Pregnant Women

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) today announced that its investigational Group B Streptococcus (GBS) vaccine candidate, GBS6 or PF-06760805, received Breakthrough Therapy ...
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Stat Consult: Prevention of Group B Strep Infection in the Newborn

Beautiful newborn baby boy in the neonatal intensive care unit sleeping This review provides a concise overview of the prevention of Group B Streptococcus in the newborn.

Mutant group B strep strains may explain infections in newborns

A new study could explain why some mothers can still pass Group B Streptococcus, or GBS, to their babies after childbirth ...
Healio

Maternal group B strep vaccine shows promise in phase 2 trial

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Pregnant women who received Pfizer’s group B ...
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Revisiting the Need for Vaccine Prevention of Late-Onset Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease: A Multistate, Population-Based Analysis

We identified 1726 cases of late-onset neonatal GBS disease between January 1990 and December 2005. Seventy-nine percent of isolates were obtained from blood, 19% from cerebrospinal fluid, 2% from ...
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Stopping spread of Group B strep

'Miracle Molly" was born on Mother's Day in 1978 with a bacterial infection that could have killed her. Now she has a healthy baby girl of her own, my great-niece Anna Kathleen. For two weeks, Molly ...