Open AccessMicrobiological 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
Author(s) -
Bo Lu,
Jianning Wu,
Xingchun Chen,
Chunyan Gao,
Junwen Yang,
Yang Li,
Junrui Wang,
Jing Zeng,
Yujie Fang,
Duochun Wang,
Yan Cui,
Lijun Wang
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of medical microbiology/journal of medical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.91
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1473-5644
pISSN - 0022-2615
DOI - 10.1099/jmm.0.000849
Subject(s) - multilocus sequence typing , microbiology and biotechnology , serotype , ampicillin , biology , ceftriaxone , pilus , clindamycin , typing , penicillin , streptococcus agalactiae , erythromycin , group b , vancomycin , streptococcus , pilin , tetracycline , genotype , antibiotics , medicine , virulence , bacteria , gene , genetics , staphylococcus aureus
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is one of the major pathogens in severe materno-neonatal infections. We aimed to describe the clinical and molecular characteristics of GBS isolates causing infections in 45 maternal and 50 neonatal subjects, collected from eight healthcare centres in mainland China over the period 2010- 2017.