Daniels, Jane P. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3324-6771
Dixon, Emily
Gill, Alicia
Bishop, Jon
Wilks, Mark
Millar, Michael
Gray, Jim
Roberts, Tracy E.
Plumb, Jane
Deeks, Jonathan J.
Hemming, Karla
Khan, Khalid S.
Thangaratinam, Shakila
Ahmed, Khaled
Dodds, Julie
D’Amico, Maria
Tryposkiadis, Kostas
Whiley, Angela
Moore, Patrick
Munetsi, Ruvimbo Lorraine
Karkhanis, Pallavi
Deans, Anne
Sharma, Sanjula
Wright, Gemma
Subramanian, Manjula
Ray, Irene
Datta, Dibyenda
Lacey, Lauren
Pepper, Johnathon
Mason, Ruth
Shah, Neil
Anwar, Katharina
Navaneetham, Neena
Husain, Shad
Bennett, Phillip
Masson, Geraldine
Raykova, Hristina
Hogg, Matthew
Dawalatly, Bashir
Thirumalaikumar, Lakshmi
Townsend, Kate
Collins, Gerry
Heath, Paul
Hood, Kerry
Petrou, Stavros
Stenson, Ben
McMullen, Sarah
Saunders, Julia
Stanley, Alison
Walters, Stephen
Bossuyt, Patrick
Gilbert, Ruth
Hughes, Rhona
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Funding for this research was provided by:
health technology assessment programme (13/82/04)
Article History
Received: 21 June 2021
Accepted: 29 November 2021
First Online: 14 January 2022
Declarations
:
: This study was approved by the West Midlands – Edgbaston Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee (16/WM/0036), including waiver of individual research consent. GBS2 was sponsored under the Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care (2015) by Queen Mary, University of London.
: No identifiable data is presented.
: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at ExternalRef removed. JP is the Chief Executive of Group B Strep Support, a Charity working to stop GBS in babies. JP received support from Cepheid to attend an academic conference in 2016, from Pfizer to attend a summit for vaccine advocacy stakeholders in the USA in 2019 and from i-CONSENT to attend workshops in London in 2018 and Brussels in 2019 regarding consent for vaccine trials. JP was a member of the Department of Health research prioritisation expert group in 2016. JP and JG are members of the NICE guideline update committee for Neonatal infection: antibiotics for prevention and treatment (update). JG was a member of the NICE Diagnostics Advisory Committee that produced DG38 Rapid tests for group A streptococcal infections in people with a sore throat (which included assessment of the Cepheid GeneXpert Xpert® Xpress Strep A test) (Published November 2019). JPD, JP and JG are grant holders for HTA 17/86/06 (GBS3), a cluster randomised trial of routine screening for GBS. JPD and JP are grant holders for a study to determine a serocorrelate of immune protection against GBS.The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.