Nursing home and assisted living services are considered types of long-term care. Long-term care consists of not just medical services, but also personal services, for people who have a disability or illness.
If your practitioner doesn't offer the GBS test during late pregnancy, ask for it. When group B strep testing is done This test is usually performed between week 35 and week 37 of pregnancy (testing before 35 weeks isn't accurate in predicting who will be carrying GBS at the time of labor).
Group B Streptococcus (GBS), or beta strep, is a normal bacterium commonly found in the intestinal tract along with other healthy bacteria.here are two recognized forms of Group B Streptococcus infection: early and late onset. A third type, prenatal onset, occurs when the bacteria crosses the amniotic membranes prenatally and can result in early or late pregnancy miscarriage or stillbirth.