Last Thursday's Guardian (12th January) carried a feature on this bacterium, which is carried by 25-30 percent of people in their genital or intestinal tracts with no adverse effects, but which is the commonest cause of severe infections in newborns in the UK.
There is a support group, Group B Strep Support, based in Haywards Heath, whose website is at http://www.gbss.org.uk/.
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