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Invasive neonatal GBS infections from an area-based surveillance study in Italy.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Dec 2011
Imperi M, Gherardi G, Berardi A, Baldassarri L, Pataracchia M, Dicuonzo G, Orefici G, Creti R
Abstract excerpt
During an area-based study, 75 group B streptococcus (GBS) strains isolated both from early-onset disease (EOD, 37 strains) and from late-onset disease (LOD, 38 strains) were analysed for serotype, pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing profiles, protein markers and antibiotic resistance. Serotype III, possessing the rib gene, was the most frequent (54 strains, 72%) and responsible...
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