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Genetic diversity and antimicrobial resistance in group B streptococcus colonizing young, nonpregnant women.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Aug 2008
Manning Shannon D, Schaeffer Katherine E, Springman A Cody, Lehotzky Erica, Lewis Maggi A, Ouellette Lindsey M, Wu Guangxi, Moorer Glynda M, Whittam Thomas S, Davies H Dele
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The genetic diversity of group B Streptococcus in young, nonpregnant women is not well studied. Application of multilocus sequence analysis to 85 group B Streptococcus strains recovered from college students revealed similarities and differences in distribution of group B Streptococcus lineages, compared with that of previously studied pregnant populations, and revealed that strains of 1 clone were associated...
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