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).
The HLA-B27 test may be ordered as part of a group of tests used to help diagnose and evaluate conditions causing arthritis-like chronic joint pain, stiffness, and inflammation. This group of tests may include a rheumatoid factor (RF) with either an erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) or a C-reactive protein (CRP).