Abstract
The group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the major cause of septicemia and meningitis in the neonatal period. Many children are exposed to this bacterium at birth, when the child may be colonized by GBS present in the normal vaginal flora. In most cases such colonization does not cause disease, but a minority of newborns fall seriously ill after birth, due to invasive GBS infection. Other children are born ill, due to an ascending infection starting during the later part of the pregnancy.1
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