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Identification of novel cps locus polymorphisms in nontypable group B Streptococcus.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jun 2006
Ramaswamy Srinivas V, Ferrieri Patricia, Madoff Lawrence C, Flores Aurea E, Kumar Nikhil, Tettelin Hervé, Paoletti Lawrence C
Abstract excerpt
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is an important pathogen responsible for a variety of diseases in newborns and the elderly. A clinical GBS isolate is considered nontypable (NT) when serological methods fail to identify it as one of nine known GBS serotypes. Eight clinical isolates (designated A1-A4, B1-B4) showed PFGE profiles similar to that of a GBS serotype V strain expressing R1, R4 surface proteins. These unique...
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