Is Testing Pregnant Women the Right Way to Find Strep B?

Risk factors include having a baby who's previously been affected by group by strep infection, if you develop a temperature during labor. Of the women who have these risk factors, actually 71 % don't carry group b strep. And they get offered antibiotics unnecessarily to prevent more cases of early onset infections. But there are theoretical concerns about the impact of antibiotics on a babies got by giving antibiotics in labor. What we really need is very clear evidence that testing is clinically and cost effective for the n h s.