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[Occurrence of the hypervirulent ST-17 clone of Streptococcus agalactiae in pregnant women and newborns].
Przeglad epidemiologiczny - 1 Jan 2012
Brzychczy-Włoch Monika, Gosiewski Tomasz, Pawlik Dorota, Szumała-Kakol Anna, Samead Alfred, Heczko Piotr B
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UNLABELLED: OBJECTIVES. The ST-17 clone of Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus, GBS) identified by Multi Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) is recognized as a hypervirulent international clone mainly associated with invasive neonatal infections. There is no data on the occurrence of the ST-17 clone of GBS in pregnant women and newborns in Poland. METHODS: 169 strains of GBS, isolated from pregnant women's...
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