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Different sequence strains of Streptococcus agalactiae elicit various levels of cytokine production.
Immunological investigations - 1 Jan 2008
De Francesco M A, Gargiulo F, Negrini R, Gelmi M, Manca N
Abstract excerpt
Group B streptococcus (GBS) is the most common cause of neonatal and obstetric sepsis and an increasingly important cause of septicemia in elderly subjects and immunocompromised patients. Our aim was to evaluate whether different genotypes of GBS may induce a different production of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines. We used multilocus sequence typing to identify 71 clones isolated from...
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