Molecular and phenotypic characterization of invasive group B streptococcus strains from infants in Norway 2006-2007

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1182-1185

  Bergseng, H ^a,c   Afset, J E ^a,b   Radtke, A ^a,b   Loeseth, K ^a   Lyng, R V ^b   Rygg, M ^a,c   Bergh, K ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Department of Microbiology ^*  (Norway)

^c TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antibiotic susceptibility; Early onset disease; Invasive GBS disease; Multilocus sequence typing; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; FATALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 70649090967     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.02789.x     Document Type: Article

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