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Clinical strains of Streptococcus agalactiae carry two different variants of pathogenicity island XII.
Folia microbiologica - 1 Sept 2017
Kuleshevich Eugenia, Ferretti Joseph, Santos Sanches Ilda, Balasubramanian Natesan, Spellerberg Barbara, Efstratiou Androulla, Kriz Paula, Grabovskaya Kornelia, Arjanova Olga, Savitcheva Alevtina, Shevchenko Valentin, Rysev Anton, Suvorov Alexander
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus agalactiae or Group B streptococci (GBS) are a common cause of serious diseases of newborns and adults. GBS pathogenicity largely depends on genes located on the accessory genome including several pathogenicity islands (PAI). The present paper is focused on the structure and molecular epidemiological analysis of one of the GBS pathogenicity islands-the pathogenicity island PAI XII (Glaser et al. Mol...
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