Synthesis of Results
Among the 45 studies reviewed, less than 30% of manuscripts reported
the presence of GBS within the results, figures, or microbial taxonomy
tables. To determine the frequency in which GBS was reported, and to
compare analytic methods across studies, we analyzed: time of sample
collection, number of research participants and samples, DNA extraction
method, type of sequencing completed, and database used to assign
taxonomy (Table 1 ).