Population structure of invasive and colonizing strains of Streptococcus agalactiae from neonates of six U.S. academic centers from 1995 to 1999

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1285-1291

  Bohnsack, John F ^a   Whiting, April ^a   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^c   Dunn, Diane Marie ^b   Weiss, Robert ^b   Azimi, Parvin H ^d   Philips III, Joseph B ^e   Weisman, Leonard E ^f   Rhoads, George G ^g   Lin, Feng Ying C ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^h EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEWBORN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UNITED STATES; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRANSPOSON; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BOVINAE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42449104395     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02105-07     Document Type: Article

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