Microbiological and clinical characteristics of Group B Streptococcus isolates causing materno-neonatal infections: high prevalence of CC17/PI-1 and PI-2b sublineage in neonatal infections.

CONCLUSION: Our study highlights the high genotypic diversity of GBS strains causing materno-neonatal infections, and the CC17/PI-1 and PI-2b sublineages should be noted in neonatal infections. PMID: 30265233 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - September 28, 2018 Category: Microbiology Authors: Lu B, Wu J, Chen X, Gao C, Yang J, Li Y, Wang J, Zeng J, Fang Y, Wang D, Cui Y, Wang L Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research