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What's Group B Strep?
Charlotte took her baby girl Amy home, but slowly it became clear something wasn't quite right. Doctors thought amy had an infection in her brain and spinal cord known as man gitus. She needed a test to look for signs of the infection in her spinal fluid. It came back that she had group be strapacaccus - i'd never heard of group be strap a caccus before so i went away and researched it myself. Groupb strep is a really common bacteria that s in one in five women's vaginas and guts. And three in a hundred will develop an infection in the first seven days of life.