Group B streptococcal colonization: Prevalence and impact of smoking in women delivering term or near term neonates in a large tertiary care hospital in the southern United States

• Philip Kum-Nji ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pkumnji@vcu.edu

  Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Richmond at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1915-9551

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• Linda Meloy,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Richmond at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• John Pierce,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Lynchburg Women’s Health, Lynchburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Amanda Ritter,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Rachel Wheeler

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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