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GBS

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In 2015, Mint entered into a management agreement with GBS under which GBS assumed oversight of the day-to-day operations of Mint's UAE operations.
Earlier, in his speech, Chow said Penang's GBS industry is moving up the value chain from providing support and transactional services to high value shared services that include design and development.
Deren, President and CEO of GBS. "This selection allows us to expand our coverage of the Springfield area and meet the needs of a wider client base."
Puopolo, M.D., Ph.D., from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues developed recommendations for management of infants at risk for GBS disease and treatment of those with confirmed GBS infection.
0.9 to 1.1 case/100,000 children2,3 but in North America incidence of GBS in pediatric age group was seen as high as 1.37/100,000 per year4.
GBS is a rare, acute, paralysing, inflammatory disease of the peripheral nervous system that affects one to two in 100,000 people annually.
Because there currently is no effective prevention strategy against LOS GBS, the investigators wrote that a maternal vaccine against the most common serotypes "holds promise to prevent a substantial portion of this remaining burden," and noted several GBS candidate vaccines were in advanced stages of development.
Since 2013, increased GBS incidence has been reported by countries affected by Zika virus (ZIKV), a flavivirus transmitted primarily by Aedes species mosquitos (8, 9).
The swabs should be inoculated into a selective broth medium such as Lim Broth for 18-24 hours followed by subculture onto a blood agar plate which is incubated for 18-24 hours and should be observed for beta-haemolytic GBS colonies.
Hoarseness together with gradual weak muscle strength proximal limbs (Grade II) was considered a possibility of GBS and further the subtype of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathies (AIDP).