Clonal variability of group B Streptococcus among different groups of carriers in southern Israel

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 443-448

  Marchaim, D ^a   Efrati, S ^a   Melamed, R ^b   Gortzak Uzan, L ^b   Riesenberg, K ^b   Zaidenstein, R ^a   Schlaeffer, F ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARAB; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CARRIER; DRUG USE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; JEW; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTHER; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEWBORN; OBSTETRICS; PARAMETER; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUERPERIUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYMPTOM; USSR;

ARABS; CARRIER STATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; JEWS; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; USSR;

EID: 33746096132     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-006-0163-6     Document Type: Article

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