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 strep, also known as beta strep or GBS, is a bacterium that can live in humans. About 25 percent of women are carriers and don't even know it. They don't have feel ill, nor are they sick. Still, is it's residing inside your body, your baby can contract it at birth.